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Book Award
The Association for Latin American Art Book award was established in 2001 and is funded by the Arvey Foundation.
Competition for the 2009 Association for Latin American Art Book Award
The Association of Latin American Art, an affiliate of the College Art Association, announces its Annual Book Award for the best scholarly book published on the art of Latin America from the Pre-Columbian era to the present. The award is generously funded by the Arvey Foundation, and will consist of a citation and a $1000 honorarium. We will present the award at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in Los Angeles in February 2009. The name of the recipient will appear in the newsletters of both ALAA and CAA.
For the February 2009 Award, we will evaluate books on Latin American Art from Pre-Columbian to the present that meet the following criteria:
- Publication date between September 1, 2007 and August 31, 2008.
- Books may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
- Books may have one or more authors
- Multi-authored exhibition catalogues with a substantive text that advances art historical knowledge also can be considered.
- We regret that edited volumes of individual articles by separate authors cannot be considered.
The books will be evaluated by a three-person committee of accomplished art historians, each with expertise in a wide geographical and temporal range.
Publishers and authors must contact Dr. Virginia Fields by September 1, 2008 to verify whether a prospective entry is eligible for the competition according to the above criteria. Please include the following information: Title, author(s) and a general description of subject. If the book appears eligible, she will provide mailing addresses for all three committee members. Copies of books are to be sent directly to each, and can be sent at any time over the summer but must be received no later than November 1, 2008.
Questions may be addressed to:
Dr. Virginia Fields
Dept. of Latin American Art, LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
vfields@lacma.org
Competition for 2009 Dissertation Award
The Association for Latin American Art is pleased to announce its biennial award
for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field of Latin American visual
culture.
Dissertations on any aspect of the visual culture of Latin America deposited between June 1, 2006 and June 1, 2008 are eligible for the next award (to be given in February 2009). Dissertations may be submitted in English, Spanish or
Portuguese; languages other than these three may
be considered, with prior consultation with the chair of the award committee.
Nominations in the form of a letter describing the dissertation's contribution
to the field should be sent by September 30, 2008, to the chair of the
award committee. Please include the nominee's current contact information.
Neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of the Association of Latin
American Art. Self- nominations are not accepted. Should the nominees be deemed
eligible, they will have until October 30, 2008, to submit three copies of
their dissertation to the committee. Nomination letters should be sent to:
Professor Patricia Sarro
Chair, ALAA Dissertation Award Committee
Department of Art
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, Ohio, 44555, USA
For further information, please contact pjsarro@YSU.edu.
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