The Phillips Book Prize
The Phillips Book Prize
The Center for the Study of Modern Art offers an annual prize for an unpublished manuscript presenting new research in modern or contemporary art from 1780 to the present. Preference is given to applicants whose research focuses on subjects related to the Phillips’s areas of collecting.
The winning author receives $5,000, and his or her manuscript will be published by the University of California Press as part of a series of first books sponsored by the Center.
Past winners of the Phillips Book Prize are Alicia Volk for a manuscript on early 20th-century Japanese modernism in the context of European painting; Terri Weissman, whose book focuses on documentary photography by Berenice Abbott; André Dombrowski for his original research on the early work of Paul Cézanne; Lauren Kroiz for her study of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American modernism and the artists, critics, and theorists of the extended Stieglitz circle; and Robert Slifkin for his manuscript on Philip Guston.
Scholars who received their PhDs within the past five years are strongly encouraged to apply. The next application deadline is April 15, 2012.
To apply, submit a cover letter, a CV, an abstract of the proposed book (one page maximum), and a book proposal (eight to ten pages). The book proposal should include a project overview, chapter outlines, a plan for revisions and completion of the manuscript, and a description of the book's position in the literature of modern or contemporary art. Three current letters of recommendation are also require (under separate cover).
Submit materials electronically to the Program Coordinator: CSMAprograms@phillipscollection.org or 202-387-2151 x286
Phillips Book Prize Winner: Alicia Volk, In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art (2010, UC Press).
Phillips Book Prize Winner: Terri Weissman, The Realisms of Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photography and Political Action (2011, UC Press).
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