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CAA Announces Publishing-Grant Recipients
The recipients of the fall 2007 Millard Meiss Publication Grants and the annual Wyeth Publication Grant have been named.
Fall Meiss Publication Grants
CAA has awarded six Millard Meiss Publication Grants for fall 2007. Thanks to the generous bequest of the late Prof. Millard Meiss, these grants are given twice annually to publishers to support the publication of scholarly books in art history and related fields. The grantees are:
- Eric Ames, Immersed in the Exotic: Carl Hagenbeck and Nineteenth-Century Theme Space (University of Washington Press)
- Çigdem Kafescioglu, Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Making of the Ottoman Capital City (Pennsylvania State University Press)
- Alick McDonnell McLean, The Urban Everyman: The Birth, Life, and Death of Medieval Prato in Tuscany (Yale University Press)
- Christine Mehring, The Art of Blinky Palermo: The Impulse of the Era: 1964–1977 (Yale University Press)
- Corine Schleif and Volker Schier, Katerina’s Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen in the Writings of a Late Birgittine Nun (Pennsylvania State University Press)
- Kristine Stiles, Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle (Duke University Press)
Books eligible for a Meiss Fund grant must already be under contract with a publisher on a subject in the arts or art history. Authors must be current CAA members. Application criteria and guidelines are available at www.collegeart.org/meiss or from publications@collegeart.org.
Deadlines: March 15 and October 1 of every year.
Wyeth Publication Grant Winners
CAA is pleased to announce the recipients of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant. Thanks to a generous three-year grant from the foundation, these awards are given annually to publishers to support the publication of one or more book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art, visual studies, and related subjects. The books receiving a grant are:
- Joshua Shannon, The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City, 1960 (Yale University Press)
- Richard Steven Street, Everyone Had Cameras: Photographers and Farmworkers in California, 1850 to the Present (University of Minnesota Press)
- Annette Stott, Rocky Mountain Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West (University of Nebraska Press).
Books eligible for the Wyeth Grant have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. The topic must be in American art; authors must be current CAA members. Application criteria and guidelines are available at www.collegeart.org/wyeth or from publications@collegeart.org.
Deadline: October 1, 2008.