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.
• Edited volumes/anthologies of individual articles that are consistent in terms of both theme and quality will also 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 15, 2008.

Questions may be addressed to
Dr. Virginia Fields
Curator of Pre-Columbian Art, LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
vfields@lacma.org

Previous Recipients of the ALAA Book Award

2008

Olivier Debroise, ed., La era de la discrepencia/the age of discrepancies. Arte y cultura visual en México/art and visual culture in Mexico, 1968-1997. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional de Autónoma de México.

2007

Virginia M. Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet, Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship. London: Scala.

2006

Gabriela Siracusano, El poder de los colores: de lo material a lo simbólico en las prácticas culturales andinas: siglos XVI-XVII. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica de Argentina.

Honorable Mentions

Elena Phipps, Johanna Hecht, Cristina Esteras Martin, The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830. New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press.

2005

Jaime Caudriello, Las glorias de la república de Tlaxcala: o la conciencia como imagen sublime. Mexico, D.F.: Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas.

Honorable Mentions

Ilona Katzew, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Matthew Looper, Lightning Warrior: Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua. Austin: University of Texas Press.

2004

Magali Carrera, Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Honorable Mentions

Diana DuPont, editor and co-author with Luis-Martín Lozano, Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro, Risking the Abstract: Mexican Modernism and the Art of Gunther Gerzso. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

2003

Rebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing with New Eyes: Highlights of The Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of The Ancient Americas. Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum.

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order by author)

Allen Christenson, Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community: The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Laura Malosetti Costa, Los primeros modernos. Arte y sociedad en Buenos Aires a fines del siglo XIX. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica de Argentina, S.A.

Nelly Sigaut, Tatiana Falcón y Javier Vzquez Negrete, José Jurez. Discursos y recursos del arte de pintar. México: Museo Nacional de Arte.

2002

Andrea Giunta, Vanguardia, internacionalismo, y política:arte Argentino en los años sesenta. Buenos Aires: Paídos Press.

Honorable Mentions

Merideth Paxton, The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya: Cycles and Steps in the Madrid Codex. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Honorable Mentions (Textbook)

Jacqueline Barnitz, 20th Century Art of Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press.

2001

Elizabeth Hill Boone, Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs. Austin: University of Texas Press.