By Lawrence Kramer, author of Music and the Forms of Life The concept of life has a long and complicated history, but its modern version can be said to date to the late …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from August and September 2022. Please join us in celebrating these …
Read More >We’re thrilled to be publishing this timely new series that focuses on contemporary calls to decolonize and indigenize museums, tear down monuments, and repatriate ancestors. Read our Q&A below with the series editors …
Read More >By Sarah-Neel Smith, author of Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey This post is designed as a classroom resource for teachers and students interested in modern Turkish art and …
Read More >Black History Month is a powerful occasion to recognize, learn from, and reflect on Black stories, histories, and legacies in America. Join us in taking this time to celebrate and highlight Black …
Read More >By J. T. Way, author of Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala As a scholar whose research applies directly as testimony in asylum cases, I am well-versed in …
Read More >A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American “without a song …
Read More >By Shana Klein, author of The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion Still-life paintings of food look innocent at first sight. Pictures …
Read More >On August 13, 2020, the United States Postal Service released postage stamps showcasing ten sculptures of Ruth Asawa. Several of these sculptures are also included in the second edition of The Sculpture …
Read More >By Janet Kraynak, author of Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life (coming November 2020) The image of a darkened White House from several weeks ago, while screams of protest clamored …
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