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Explore our groundbreaking books that facilitate teaching across disciplines. To request an exam copy, click on “Request an Exam or Desk Copy” on the book page, and this will take you to our distributor's site where you can order your copy.The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Inter

By Martha Buskirk, author of Is It Ours? Art, Copyright, and Public InterestThis guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.What’s art, and who decides? Some might say this is a question best left to the theoreticians, yet often there ar

We are pleased to offer a selection of our journals content for free online in conjunction with the virtual conference of the College Art Association (CAA). Explore the current issue of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, which this year was named the "Best New Journal" by the Council of Edito

This guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square Show in New York City. By 1982, at the age of twenty-one, Basquiat had so

By Katherine Smith, author of The Accidental Possibilities of the City: Claes Oldenburg’s Urbanism in Postwar AmericaThis guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.Over the last few years, I have been following the developments in Ameri

By Katherine Manthorne, author of Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt GreatorexThis guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.Today human movement is at a record high. The United Nations reports that approximately o

By Kaira M. Cabañas, author of Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary ArtThis guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more. In a recent interview for Utopia: Revista de Crítica Cultural, art historian and c

In this edition of our UC Press Editor Spotlight Series, we sat down with Art History Editor Archna Patel to discuss her vision for our Art list, how she’s supporting and responding to calls for social justice within the field, and how her love for the Lakers has helped her cope during the pandemic.

UC Press is pleased to have a number of our authors participate in this year’s College Art Association’s sessions.

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced category winners for the 2021 Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards honoring the best scholarly works published in 2020. A panel of 23 judges selected the winners from a total of 130 Finalists from an overall pool of 595 entri