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Past Winners
Below is a list of all past recipients of the Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant. The program supports book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art, visual studies, and related subjects. For this grant program, “American art” is defined as art (circa 1500–1980) of what is now the geographic United States.
2019
Anni Albers, On Weaving, translation from English to French, Les Presses du Réel
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton and Commerce in the Atlantic World, Duke University Press
François Brunet, La naissance de l’idée de photographie [The Birth of the Idea of Photography], translation from French into English, Ryerson Image Center
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era, translation in Korean, Youlhwadang Press
Eddie Chambers, ed., The Routledge Companion to African American Art History, Taylor & Francis
Julia Drost, ed., Networks, Museums and Collections. Surrealism in the U.S., translation from French to English, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris
Natilee Harren, Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples and the Eternal Network, University of Chicago Press
Elaine de Larminat, Houses and Homes. Photographier la maison américaine, Le Point du Jour
Jody Patterson, Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in New Deal New York, Yale University Press
Laurence Schmidlin, La spatialisation du dessin dans l'art américain des années 1960 et 1970, Les Presses du Réel
2018
Benoît Buquet, Graphics: Art and design graphique aux États-Unis dans les anées 1960 et 1970, Les Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais
Judy Chicago, Through the Flower—My Struggle as a Woman Artist, translated into French by Sophie Taam, Les Presses du Réel
Patricia Hills, Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century, translated into Chinese by Qiao Hu, Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing
Frank Mehring, Riding the Tidal Wave of Modernism: (Trans)National Approaches to the Artwork of Winold Reiss, Deutscher Kunstverlag
Tanya Sheehan, Study in Black and White: Race, Photography, Humor, Pennsylvania State University Press
Gloria Sutton, Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome: An Experience Machine, translated into French. Preface by Philippe-Alain Michaud. Éditions B2
L. H. Wells, Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York, Yale University Press
2017
Philippe Artières, Attica, USA, 1971, Le Point du Jour
Emily Burns, Transnational Frontiers: The Visual Culture of the American West in the French Imagination, 1867-1914, University of Oklahoma Press
Sophie Cras, The Artist as Economist: Art and Capitalism in the 1960s, Yale University Press
Kenji Kajiya, Formless Modernism: Color Field Painting and 20th-Century American Culture, University of Tokyo Press
Kate Lemay, Triumph of the Dead: The American War Cemeteries in France, University of Alabama Press
ShiPu Wang, The Other American Moderns, Pennsylvania State University Press
2016
Jean-Pierre Criqui and Céline Flécheux, eds., Robert Smithson. Mémoire et entropie, Les presses du réel
Erika Doss, Twentieth-Century American Art, translated into Armenian by Vardan Azatyan, Eiva Arts Foundation
Eva Ehninger and Antje Krause-Wahl, eds., In Terms of Painting (Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2016)
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal, translated into French by Karine Douplitzky, Éditions des archives contemporaines
Rockwell Kent, Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan, translated into Spanish and edited by Fielding D. Dupuy, Amarí Peliowski, and Catalina Valdés, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile) and Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Will Norman, Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile and Culture in Midcentury America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
Annika Öhrner, ed., Art in Transfer in the Era of Pop: Curatorial Practices and Transnational Strategies (Huddinge: Södertörn University, 2017)
Joshua Shannon, The Recording Machine: Art and Fact during the Cold War, Yale University Press
Fred Turner, Le cercle démocratique: Le design multimédia de la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux années pyschédéliques, trans. Anne Lemoine (Caen: C & F Éditions, 2016)
2015
Celeste-Marie Bernier, Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015)
René Brimo, The Evolution of Taste in American Collecting, trans. and ed. Kenneth Haltman (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017)
J. B. Jackson, Habiter l’ouest (A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time), Wildproject Editions
David Lubin, Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Frank Mehring, The Mexico Diary: Winold Reiss between Vogue Mexico and Harlem Renaissance (Trier, Germany, and Tempe, AZ: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier and Bilingual Press, 2016)
Jennifer Mundy, Man Ray: Writings on Art (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2016)
The Seth Siegelaub Source Book, Walther König
Hélène Valance, Nuits américaines: L’art du nocturne aux États-Unis, 1890–1917 (Paris: Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne, 2015)