UA Press Publishes Crystal Bridges Museum Exhibition Catalog

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Press has published Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, a catalog for an exhibition of the same name now on view at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art through Jan. 7, 2019.

The new book includes 75 images and enhances the exhibition with artist’s reflections and essays by art historians.

Listed as one of the ‘most promising museum shows around the world’ by ARTNews and ‘one of the 10 US art shows you have to see this fall’ by AFAR Magazine, the Art for a New Understanding exhibition is intended to broaden definitions of contemporary art with new understandings of Indigenous art.

The authors of the book are Mindy N. Besaw, a curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Candice Hopkins, an independent curator, writer and researcher; and Manuela Well-Off-Man, an art historian and chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

The UA Press is also in the process of producing its second Crystal Bridges exhibition catalog: Men of Steel, Women of Wonder: Modern American Superheroes in Contemporary Art, written by by Alejo Benedetti, to be published in February 2019, when the exhibition opens.

About the University of Arkansas Press: The University of Arkansas Press was founded in 1980 as the book publishing division of the University of Arkansas. A member of the Association of American University Presses, it has as its central and continuing mission the publication of books that serve both the broader academic community and Arkansas and the region.

About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.