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 …
Read More >From the earliest marches in 1970 to this month’s events around the Bay Area and the world, Pride has celebrated and commemorated the LGBTQ community’s culture and heritage for over 40 years. …
Read More >By Avram Finkelstein, author of After Silence: A History of AIDS through Its Images Home. It’s a leitmotif that underpins every conversation about COVID-19, and a word used with escalating frequency. It implies …
Read More >For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, UC Press is excited to provide a virtual look into the forthcoming second edition of The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air by Timothy …
Read More >Art historian and professor Joan Kee will be appearing at two events in Southern California later this month around the recent publication of her book, Models of Integrity: Art and Law in …
Read More >UC Press is honored to announce that four of our publications have been nominated by the Association of American Publishers for the 2019 PROSE Awards in their respective academic subject areas. Starting …
Read More >We’re delighted to announce that multiple UC Press titles have been both shortlisted and longlisted for the 2017 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Awards. The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards are the UK’s leading prizes for …
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