Grants Programs: 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.

Publishers interested in further information or in making a nomination should contact Grants Administrator, Dedalus Foundation, at .

The past recipients of the Robert Motherwell Book Award are:

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.