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CAA awards for 2008
Art in America, Feb, 2008
The College Art Association has announced its 2008 awards for distinction, to be presented on Feb. 21 at the annual conference, this year held in Dallas. Mount Holyoke professor Robert L. Herbert receives the lifetime achievement award for art writing. Chris Kraus, writer, filmmaker and editor, is the winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism. Sylvia Sleigh is the recipient of the distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement, and Yoko Ono for a body of work.
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Sarah Greenough and Diane Waggoner of the National Gallery of Art receive the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for their exhibition catalogue The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson. Wu Hung, professor at the University of Chicago, has been selected for distinguished teaching in art history, while the teaching of art award goes to Ronald Leax of Washington University, St. Louis. Elizabeth C. Mansfield of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., is the recipient of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis. UC-Irvine's Simon Leung receives the Art Journal award for his article "The Look of Law," and Fabio Barry of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland garners the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for his article in Art Bulletin, "Walking on Water: Cosmic Floors in Antiquity and the Middle Ages." The CAN Heritage Preservation Award goes to Elizabeth S. Bolman of Temple University, Philadelphia.
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