CAA is pleased to announce the 2021 finalists for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and two Alfred H. Barr Jr. Awards. The winners of the three prizes, along with the recipients of other Awards for Distinction, will be announced in February 2021 and presented during Convocation in conjunction with CAA’s 109th Annual Conference, taking place on February 10-13, 2021.
2021 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award finalists
Charles L. Davis II, Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019
Emine Fetvaci, The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul, Princeton University Press, 2019
Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Harvard University Press, 2020
John Warne Monroe, Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art, Cornell University Press, 2019
Liza Oliver, Art, Trade, and Imperialism in Early Modern French India, Amsterdam University Press, 2019
2021 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award finalists
Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen Gresh, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography, Yale University Press, 2020
Eleanor Jones Harvey, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture, Princeton University Press, 2020
Stephen Little and Virginia Moon, ed., Beyond Line: The Art of Korean Writing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books, 2019
Alisa LaGamma, Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020
Louis Marchesano, ed., Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics, Getty Publications, 2020
Catherine Jenkins, Nadine M. Orenstein, and Freyda Spira, The Renaissance of Etching, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
2021 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions finalists
Gean Moreno, Ettore Sottsass and The Social Factory, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and DelMonico Books, 2020
Adriano Pedrosa, José Esparza Chong Cuy, Julieta González, and Tomás Toledo, Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) and DelMonico Books, 2020
Luca Guido, Angela Person, and Stephanie Pilat, ed., Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture, University of Oklahoma Press, 2020
Andrea Rosen, Wood Gaylor and American Modernism, 1913-1936, Fleming Museum of Art, 2020
Jinah Kim and Todd Lewis, Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal, Brill, 2019
Aprile Gallant, Floyd Cheung, and Margo Machida, Defiant Vision: Prints & Poetry by Munio Makuuchi, Smith College Museum of Art, 2019
Susan Cooksey, ed. Peace, Power, and Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa, University Press of Florida, 2020
