Portraits at an Exhibition Receives a 2016 Art in Literature Award

by Gavin Grant August 25th, 2016

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Portraits at an Exhibition cover - click to view full sizePORTRAITS AT AN EXHIBITION, published by Lethe Press, has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 Art in Literature Award, co-sponsored by the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The award goes to “an outstanding book published in the previous year that is written primarily in response to a work (or works) of art while also showing the highest literary quality as a creative or scholarly work.

The Art in Literature Award is named in honor of author and journalist Mary Lynn Kotz, a longtime contributing editor for ARTnews magazine, whobuilt a career interviewing, researching, writing, and lecturing about art and artists, including Georgia O’Keeffe and John Cage. Her critically acclaimed book Rauschenberg/Art and Life (Abrams) balances deft observations of craft with a biographer’s chronicle of the American artist. Through her service to cultural institutions and initiatives, including many in Virginia, Kotz has shown a lifelong commitment to making the arts a vital presence in society.

Posted on Thursday, August 25th, 2016 at 4:36 am.

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