Robert Motherwell Book Award
The Robert Motherwell Book Award is given annually and carries a prize of $20,000 awarded to the author of an outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts—including the visual arts, literature, music and the performing arts. Nominations are normally made by publishers and the winner is chosen by a panel of distinguished scholars and writers.
Nominations for the Robert Motherwell Book Award are accepted between November 1 and December 19. Please consult our Nominations Procedures and Criteria page for guidelines.
The past recipients of the Robert Motherwell Book Award are:
2011
Matthew Jesse Jackson, The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes, published by the University of Chicago Press.
2010
Susan Sidlauskas, Cézanne’s Other: The Portraits of Hortense, published by the University of California Press.
2009
R. Bruce Elder, Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century, published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
2008
Aleksandra Shatskikh, Vitebsk: The Life of Art, published by Yale University Press.
2007
Jane Ashton Sharp, Russian Modernism between East and West: Natal’ia Goncharova and the Moscow Avant-Garde, published by Cambridge University Press.
2006
Lawrence Rainey, Revisiting The Waste Land and The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose, published by Yale University Press.
2005
Theodore Ziolkowski, Ovid and the Moderns, published by Cornell University Press.
2004
Roger Benjamin, Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa 1880–1930, published by the University of California Press.
2003
Gérard Durozoi, History of the Surrealist Movement, published by the University of Chicago Press.
2002
Daniel Arasse, Anselm Kiefer, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.