Research-based publishing to reclaim Armenian art histories
AMCA’s commitment to publishing is a way to provide a platform for research, visibility, and long-term cultural impact.
Our publishing program runs parallel to our exhibitions, archives, and ongoing research. It includes foundational books on Armenian modern and contemporary art, artist monographs, exhibition catalogues, and critical essays on Armenian art histories both in the homeland and the diaspora.
These works aim to make Armenian art histories accessible to a wider audience—researchers, curators, collectors, students, and general readers alike.
In tandem with our broader program, it will challenge the long-standing omission of Armenian artists from 20th-century art history and help reposition their work.
The first major release, A Path Through Modern and Contemporary Armenian Art, written by Dr. I. Robertson with a contribution from Nazareth Karoyan, offers an accessible introduction to 20th- and 21st-century Armenian art. It is the first illustrated guide of its kind in English and brings overdue attention to artists from both Armenia and the diaspora.
The forthcoming expanded second edition deepens this effort. It includes significant new chapters on Marcos Grigorian, Leon Tutundjian, Hamlet Hovsepian, and Ervand Kochar—artists whose contributions to Armenian modernism and conceptual contemporary art have been overlooked in the global canon. These additions emerge from our curatorial and academic research in progress and signal the direction of future publications.