Dedalus Foundation

The winner of the 2022 Robert Motherwell Book Award is Object Lessons: Case Studies in Minimal Art—The Guggenheim Panza Collection Initiative (Guggenheim Museum) by Francesca Esmay, Ted Mann, and Jeffrey Weiss. The award carries a $10,000 prize for the authors.

Object Lessons is an innovative, brave, and uncompromising text that presents a refreshingly new approach to the study of modern art. It offers profound insights and guidance on questions of great concern to those who care for and about works of art.

The jury also awarded an Honorable Mention with Distinction for a Single-Author Work to Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition (University of Chicago Press) by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen.

Learn more: https://www.dedalusfoundation.org/2022-object-lessons-case-studies-minimal-art

Don't forget to apply! Application deadline for the "Toward Equity in Publishing" is on Wednesday, 9/15.

We are proud to support this new initiative designed to remediate the inequitable conditions that impede publication in the field of American art history.
Through editorial mentorship and workshops, the program will demystify scholarly publication processes and help scholars revise manuscripts for submission and publication.

Who should apply—
Unpublished graduate students, untenured faculty, junior museum staff, and independent scholars who are producing research on American art history and related visual culture topics.
Priority will be given to applicants whose experiences will broaden diversity in the field, including those with a personal history of overcoming adversity, first-generation college or graduate-school attendees, and those who have not received institutional funding (fellowships, grants, scholarships, or paid leave) in the past two years.

This program is being launched by the American Art Journal which is co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and University of Chicago Press





Image: Liza Lou, Kitchen (detail), 1991–96. Glass beads, wood, wire, plaster, and artist’s used appliances, 96 × 132 × 168 in. Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York © Liza Lou. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. Photo: Tom Powell

https://www.dedalusfoundation.org/2021-toward-equity-publishingW