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The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writ...
By Martha Buskirk, author of Is It Ours? Art, Copyright, and Public Interest
This 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 oft...
We are pleased to offer a selection of our journals content for free online in conjunction with the virtual conference of the College Art Association (CAA). Explore the current issue of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, which this year was named the “Best New Journal” by the Counc...
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, Basq...
By Katherine Smith, author of The Accidental Possibilities of the City: Claes Oldenburg’s Urbanism in Postwar America
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Over the last few years, I have been following the developmen...
By Katherine Manthorne, author of Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex
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Today human movement is at a record high. The United Nations reports that appr...
By Kaira M. Cabañas, author of Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art
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In a recent interview for Utopia: Revista de Crítica Cultural, art hist...
In this edition of our UC Press Editor Spotlight Series, we sat down with Art History Editor Archna Patel to discuss her vision for our Art list, how she’s supporting and responding to calls for social justice within the field, and how her love for the Lakers has helped her cope during th...
UC Press is pleased to have a number of our authors participate in this year’s College Art Association’s sessions discussing topics relevant to their work and research. Check out the following programs; the times listed below are PST:
Wednesday, February 10, 9:30am
Pause. Remak...
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 po...