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Morey and Barr Award Shortlist
CAA is pleased to announce the finalists for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for 2008. The winners of both prizes are presented during Convocation at the Annual Conference in Dallas–Fort Worth, taking place Thursday evening, February 21, 6:00–7:30 PM.
The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award honors an especially distinguished book in the history of art, published in any language between September 1, 2006, and August 31, 2007. The finalists are:
- Todd Porterfield and Susan L. Siegfried, Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006)
- Ann Terry and Henry Maguire, Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eurfasius at Pore (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007)
- Elizabeth Mansfield, Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
- Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt and the Female Nude (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2006).
The Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for museum scholarship is presented to the author(s) of an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, published between September 1, 2006, and August 31, 2007, under the auspices of a museum, library, or collection. The finalists are:
- Mark Reinhardt, Holly Edwards, and Erina Dugganne, eds., Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain (Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, in association with University of Chicago Press, 2007)
- John Oliver Hand, Catherine A. Metzger, and Ron Spronk, Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2006)
- Sarah Greenough and Diane Waggoner, with Sarah Kennel and Matthew S. Witkovsky, The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, in association with Princeton University Press, 2007)
- Joseph J. Rishel, with Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt, The Arts in Latin America 1492–1820 (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2006)
For further information on the awards, please contact Emmanuel Lemakis, CAA director of programs.