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Inaugural Winner of the 2004 IFPDA Book Award
Wendy Weitman
for Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things
The IFPDA has awarded its first annual IFPDA Book Award to Wendy Weitman, Curator in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, for her catalog Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things, which accompanied her 2003 exhibition of the same name. The presentation was made to Ms. Weitman on Saturday November 6, 2004 at the Fourteenth Annual Print Fair, held at the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City.
In Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things, Ms. Weitman focuses on Ms. Smith the artist, and explores all facets of her printmaking career to date, from her earliest monotypes in the 1970s, to her latest etchings in 2003. The panel agreed that the beautiful design and composition, the thorough documentation of the prints and the faithful reproduction of the images made it a wonderful reference book. Ms. Weitman spent a great deal of time with Ms. Smith, and her essay and biographical coverage is outstanding. An additional bonus to this publication includes an artist's book; several prints specially made by Ms. Smith are bound inside the volume. Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things was published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Other highly commended entries included: Robert H. Getscher, An Annotated and Illustrated Version Of Giorgio Vasari's History of Italian and Northern Prints from His Lives of the Artists (1550 & 1568), Vol I: Text, Vol II: Plates, The Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, N.Y.); Jörg Maass, Ausgewählte Arbeiten auf Papier von Edvard Munch bis Gerhard Richter (Selected Works on Paper from Edvard Munch to Gerhard Richter), Kunsthandel Jörg Maass, Berlin; and Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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