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What’s art, and who decides?
Feb 12 2021
By Martha Buskirk, author of Is It Ours? Art, Copyright, and Public InterestThis guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.What’s art, and who decides? Some might say this is a question best left to the theoreticians, yet often there ar
Watch: Jordana Saggese previews her new Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader
Feb 11 2021
This guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square Show in New York City. By 1982, at the age of twenty-one, Basquiat had so
The Problem of Persistence: What Oldenburg’s Critique of Monumentality Offers Today’s Discussions
Feb 11 2021
By Katherine Smith, author of The Accidental Possibilities of the City: Claes Oldenburg’s Urbanism in Postwar AmericaThis guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.Over the last few years, I have been following the developments in Ameri
Migration, Art & the Quest for Home: A 19th Century Woman’s Story
Feb 10 2021
By Katherine Manthorne, author of Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt GreatorexThis guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.Today human movement is at a record high. The United Nations reports that approximately o
Whose Global Modernism?
Feb 08 2021
By Kaira M. Cabañas, author of Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary ArtThis guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more. In a recent interview for Utopia: Revista de Crítica Cultural, art historian and c
Congratulations to UC Press’s PROSE Awards Subject Category Winners
Feb 01 2021
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced category winners for the 2021 Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards honoring the best scholarly works published in 2020. A panel of 23 judges selected the winners from a total of 130 Finalists from an overall pool of 595 entri
Not Just a “Still Life:” The Racist Messages Behind American Images of Fruit
Oct 22 2020
By Shana Klein, author of The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American ExpansionStill-life paintings of food look innocent at first sight. Pictures of bowls bulging with oranges and grapes were fashionable in nineteenth-century American dining rooms, prompting