Tag Archives: College Art Association

Attending CAA? Save 30% on UW Press Books

We look forward to connecting with everyone at the 2023 College Art Association annual meeting, taking place in New York City on February 15-18.

Be sure to visit UW Press in the Book and Trade Fair at booth 221 for a 30% discount on new and notable titles. We have a rich and varied catalog in Asian art, Native American and Indigenous art, visual culture, and more. Our virtual exhibit is now open, and you can take early advantage of the conference discount with code WCAA23 at checkout. The code will be valid for CAA members through March 15, 2023.


Discover New and Notable Books


Learn About Our Art and Visual Culture Series

Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series

Publishing important new research on the Native art and culture of the greater Pacific Northwest, this series aims to foster appreciation of the dynamic cultural and artistic expressions of the Indigenous peoples of the region. Grounded in art history, the series encompasses investigations of historical productions and contemporary manifestations of cultural expression as well as the important intersections between time, place, technique, and viewpoint.

Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture

This new book series engages insights from critical ethnic studies and visual culture, and encourages innovative interdisciplinary antiracist work that challenges and transforms our understanding of race, ethnicity, and the visual. Focusing on art, new media, art history, visual anthropology, visual culture, craft, fashion, and other forms of cultural expression, the series brings together works that engage decolonization and social justice with an intersectional emphasis on race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, and gender.


See What’s New and Forthcoming from Our Publishing Partners

New in Art History and Visual Culture for CAA 2016

From February 3-6, we will be at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in Washington, DC. UW Press Advancement and Grants Manager Beth Fuget will be representing the Press, unveiling several new books, and meeting with partners to discuss our Mellon Foundation-funded collaboration, the Art History Publication Initiative.

Here is a taste of some recent and forthcoming titles in art history and visual culture we’ll be featuring at the conference, but be sure to stop by our booth (#322) to see our full slate of books. Follow along on social media with #caa2016.

Art History Publication Initiative Books

New and Recent Books

Forthcoming Books

Bhupen Khakhar: You Can’t Please All
Edited by Chris DeDercon and Nada Raza
Forthcoming June 2016
Published with Tate Publishing

This publication presents a fresh take on Bhupen Khakhar’s artistic, social, and spiritual interests. With personal and touching contributions by those who knew him, this richly illustrated book is an essential reference to one of the most compelling and unique voices in 20th century art, as well as a significant contribution to the field of international modernism.

Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768–1771
By Neil Chambers
With Contributions by Sir David Attenborough, John Gascoigne, Jeremy Coote, Andrew Cook, and Anna Agnarsdottir
Forthcoming Spring 2016
Published with Paul Holberton Publishing

The objects featured in this book tell the story of the Endeavour voyage and its impact ahead of the 250th anniversary of this seminal mission’s launch. The surviving illustrations are the most important body of images produced since Europeans entered this region, matching the truly historic value of the plant specimens and artifacts that will be seen alongside them.

Africa in the Market
Edited by Silvia Forni and Christopher Steiner
Forthcoming Spring 2016
Distributed for Royal Ontario Museum

The collection contains a wide range of mostly 20th century pieces that illustrate the creative achievements and cultural meanings of art objects produced and collected at a time of great international expansion of the market for African art. The objects are framed and interpreted within academic essays that highlight the significant role that African makers and dealers have played in shaping Western understanding of African art.

Chicana/o Art since the Sixties: From Errata to Remix
By Karen Mary Davalos
Forthcoming Spring 2016
Distributed for UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press

Davalos combines decolonial theory with extensive archival and field research to offer a new critical perspective on Chicana/o art. Using Los Angeles as a case study, she presents her most ambitious project to date in this examination of fifty years of Chicana/o art production in a major urban area.

New Art History Website and College Art Association Conference Preview

Screen Shot 2014-02-12 at 6.44.37 AMThis is a big week for University of Washington Press art and art history books! First, along with our partners in the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI) – Duke University Press, Penn State University Press, and the University of Pennsylvania Press – we’re delighted to launch AHPI’s new website: arthistorypi.org.

AHPI’s mission is to help bring art history publishing into the digital age by tackling some of the obstacles that have made it difficult for scholars and publishers to take advantage of evolving digital technologies. All AHPI books are being published in both print and digital form, and the website will host accompanying multimedia materials such as video clips, interviews, podcasts, interactive maps, and more.

The website will also serve as a forum for discussions of rights and permissions issues that can be particularly vexing in the field of art history, with blog posts on recent developments and case studies about problems encountered and solutions found. For more information about the initiative and the first books in it, please visit the new site!

Continue reading

UW Press News, Reviews, and Events

Welcome to the new University of Washington Press blog! We’ll update this site weekly with Press news, guest posts from our authors, and other original content so bookmark this page and check back often!

Award News

Congratulations to Yukio Lippit, whose book, Painting of the Realm: The Kano House of Painters in 17th-Century Japan, has been named the winner of two prestigious awards: the College Art Association’s 2014 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and the Association for Asian Studies’ 2014 John Whitney Hall Book Prize.
Continue reading