Application deadline: September 15, 2016
The Phillips Collection
The University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge
1600 21st Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
T 202 387 2151 x246
The University of Maryland and Phillips Collection Book Prize supports publication of a first book by an emerging scholar. The manuscript selected for this award represents new and innovative research in modern and contemporary art from 1780 to the present. The biennial Phillips Book Prize is awarded by an editorial committee, which meets every other year at The University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection.
The past recipients of the Phillips Book Prize are Alicia Volk, In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art; Terri Weissman, The Realisms of Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photography and Political Action; André Dombowski, Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life; Lauren Kroiz, Creative Composites: Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle; Robert Slifkin, Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art; Charles F.B. Miller, Radical Picasso: Surrealism and the Theory of the Avant-Garde; and Joyce Tsai, László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography.
The winning author receives 5,000 USD, and his or her manuscript will be published jointly by the University of California Press, The University of Maryland, and The Phillips Collection. The author will present at least one public lecture and book signing after the completion of the book. Scholars who received their PhDs within the past five years are encouraged to apply.
Award recipient will be notified within two months following the application deadline.
To apply
A complete application consists of the following:
–A cover letter
–A curriculum vitae
–A book proposal (no longer than ten pages), including a statement of the book’s significance in the context of the existing literature on modern and/or contemporary art, outlines or abstracts of all the chapters, a timeline for completion of the manuscript, and one completed chapter
Please send all components as a single pdf to [email protected]. Please also arrange for three current letters of recommendation to be sent directly, also to [email protected].
