University of Chicago Launches Abakanowicz Collection
The Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation has awarded the University of Chicago Press a gift to establish a book series that reflects the broad interests of the Polish-born artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, who lived from 1930-2017. The series, to be known as the Abakanowicz Collection, will feature creative and critical works on under-represented subjects in the arts and on the role of art in society and culture.
The first two books in the Abakanowicz Collection will debut next year: Pow! Right in the Eye: Thirty Years Behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting is the memoir of Berthe Weill, a French female gallerist who was the first to sell art by Picasso and Matisse in Paris. The press will also publish Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography, a study of contemporary women artists who work in analog media, by art historian George Baker.
The gift will support two to three books annually for a period of five years.
