Regimes of Description : In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century, co-edited with John Bender. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2005
Mapping Benjamin : The Work of Art in the Digital Age, co-edited with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2003
"Caillebotte as Professional Painter: From Studio to the Public Eye," in Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris, edited by Norma Broude. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2002, pp. 21-65
"Vivre en marge : Géricault et la vie militaire," in Géricault : Dessins et estampes des collections de l’École des Beaux-Arts, exhibition catalogue. Paris: École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1997, pp. 89-106
"Schauer der Eroberung : Strukturen des Zuschauens und der Simulation in den Nordafrika-Galerien von Versailles," in Bilder der Macht-Macht der Bilder, eds. Stefan Germer and Michael Zimmermann. München : Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1997, pp. 267-296
"Dreams of History," review article of Dreams of Happiness by Neil McWilliam, The Oxford Art Journal, 20, no. 2 (September 1997), pp. 76-80
"Narrative Space and Heroic Form : Géricault and the Painting of History," in Géricault : Ouvrage collectif dirigé par Régis Michel. Paris : La documentation Française, 1996, pp. 59-87
Review of The Practice of Theory by Keith Moxey, The American Historical Review, 101, no. 4 (October 1996), pp. 1175-1176
"Historical Vision and the Writing of History at Louis-Philippes Versailles," in The Popularization of Images : Visual Culture under the July Monarchy, edited by Petra Chu and Gabriel Weisberg. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 113-143
"Cultural Institutions and the Topography of Art History," in The Philosophy of the Visual Arts, edited by Philip Alperson. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 521-529
"Literal/ Literary/ ‘Lexie’ : history, text, and authority in Napoleonic painting," Word & Image, 7, no. 3 (July-September 1991), pp. 177-200
"The Modernity of Middleness : Rethinking the Juste-Milieu," Porticus : Journal of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, XII/XIII (1989/90), pp. 42-63
"The July Monarchy," exhibition review, CAA Art Journal, XLIX, no. 3 (Fall 1990), pp. 301-305
Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe : Art and Ideology in Orléanist France, 1830-1848. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1988
Reviews Include :
Francis Haskell, "Thanks for the Memory," The New York Review of Books, XXXV, no. 19 (8 December 1988), pp. 48-51
Claire Brunet, "Notes de Lecture," Les Cahiers du Musée National dArt Moderne, no. 26 (Winter 1988), pp. 111-112
Julie F. Codell, "Book Reviews," French Review (Spring 1989), pp. 927-928
Neil McWilliam, "Book Reviews," The Burlington Magazine, CXXXI, no. 1033 (April 1989), pp. 302-304
Daniel J. Sherman, "Reviews," French Politics and Society, VII, no. 2 (Spring 1989), pp. 81-87
Jon Whiteley, "The Kings Pictures," The Oxford Art Journal, XII, no. 1 (Spring 1989), pp. 57-59
Anne M. Wagner, "Book Reviews," The American Historical Review, XCV, no. 4 (October 1990), pp. 1214-1215
Donald M. Rosenthal, "Style Louis-Philippe," CAA Art Journal, XLIX, no. 4 (Winter 1990), pp. 423-426
Marie-Claude Chaudonneret, "La peinture en France de 1830 à 1848 : Chronique bibliographique et critique," Revue de lArt, no. 91 (1er trimestre 1991), pp. 71-80
Critical Introduction and Bibliography to reprint edition of Léon Rosenthals Du Romantisme au Réalisme. Paris : Macula, 1987
Review of Romanticism and Realism by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, Art in America, LXXII, no. 6 (1984), pp. 29-31
"Neo-Classical Art and Architecture"; text prepared for the new edition of the Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia, June 1982
"Resistance, Revolution, and the July Monarchy : Images to Inspire the Chamber of Deputies," The Oxford Art Journal, III, no. 2 (October 1980), pp. 26-37
"Images and Ideas of Charlotte Corday : Texts and Contexts of an Assassination," Arts Magazine, LIV, no. 8 (April 1980), pp. 158-176
"Picasso as an Ingres Young Cubist," The Burlington Magazine, CXIX, no. 896 (November 1977), pp. 756-763
"Cézanne : The Late Work"; brochure prepared to accompany the exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, cited above
LECTURES AND PAPERS
- "You think you know what Impressionism is ?"; Panel discussion organized around the exhibition An Italian Impressionist in Paris : Giuseppe De Nittis, at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, 5 February 2023
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- "Enchanted Objects : Why Still-Life Painting is Modern (according to Duncan Phillips)"; at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, 16 May 2019
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- "Figuring Perception : Monet at Sainte-Adresse in 1867"; Colloquium Impressionisme noir organized by the Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art in Paris, 15-16 November 2018
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- "Cailebotte's Paris"; Inaugural Symposium for Gustave Caillebotte : The Painter's Eye at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, 7 November 2015
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- "Writing Letters / Marking Paint : van Gogh's Doubt"; Department of Art and Art History at San José State University in San José, 19 November 2013
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- "Gustave Cailebotte's Paris : Fantasizing the Urban Garden"; Symposium Space & Identity organized by the Art History Association at San José State University in San José, 14 April 2012
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- "The Thing-ness of Diagrams"; Colloquium Thinking with Diagrams : Space-Knowledge-Inscription organized by TOPOI Research Group at Freie Universität in Berlin, 7 July 2011
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- "GC's Point & Shoot : Figuring the Subjectivity of Naturalism"; Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, 18 April 2011
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- "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; Symposium Translating the Encyclopedia in the Global Eighteenth Century in New York, 5 March 2011
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- "The Thing-ness of Diagrams"; Workshop on Diagrammatic Reasoning organized by CSLI at Stanford University, 13 March 2010
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- "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; Symposium Thinking through Diagrams in Madison, 26 February 2010
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- "Le Tricolore : Triumph and Conflict"; Mechanics Institute Library in San Francisco, 14 July 2009
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- "Napoléon and the Visual Arts"; Symposium Confronting Napoleon: European Culture at the Crossroads organized by Humanities West in San Francisco, 17 April 2009
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- "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; CRASSH at Cambridge University, 28 October 2008
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- "The Efficacy of Diagram: The Domain of Whiteness" in collaboration with John Bender; The International Word+Image Colloquium in Paris, 7 July 2008
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- "The Culture of Diagram: Visualizations" in collaboration with John Bender; Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution at Stanford University, 2 June 2008
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- "The Secret Life of René Cailebotte: Gustave's Pictures of his Brother"; Symposium Open Eyes and Open Mind: The Art History of Robert Rosenblum organized by New York University in New York City, 14 October 2006
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- "Reflections on Ingres and the Reality of Art"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 13 March 2006
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- "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; Annual Lecture sponsored by The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University, 23 February 2006
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- "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities in Ann Arbor, 22 February 2006
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- "The Architecture of Industry in the Encyclopedia" in collaboration with John Bender; University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities in Ann Arbor, 22 February 2006
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- "Thinking with Diagrams in Marmontel and David" in collaboration with John Bender; Stanford Humanities Center, 24 January 2006
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- "Delacroix's Liberty leading the People" interview and commentary on the televison program produced by Nick Gold for The Secret Life of a Masterpiece series, BBC Channel 2 in London, 2 April 2005
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- "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; The Nineteeth Annual DeBartolo Conference organized by the University of South Florida in Tampa, 18 February 2005
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- "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; Department of Rhetoric, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, 26 April 2004
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- "The Architecture of Industry in the Encyclopedia" in collaboration with John Bender; American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting in Boston, 26 March 2004
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- "The Architecture of Industry in the Encyclopedia" in collaboration with John Bender; Seminar on the Enlightenment and Revolution at Stanford, 23 February 2004
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- "The Culture of Diagram" in collaboration with John Bender; Visual Knowledges Conference organized by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanties at the University of Edinburgh, 17 September 2003
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- "The Architecture of Industry in the Encyclopedia" in collaboration with John Bender; The International Word+Image Colloquium in Paris, 26 June 2003
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- "Forestalling Fantasy: Circuits of Desire in Delacroix's Women of Algiers"; Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium Annual Meeting in Columbus Ohio, 25 October 2002
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- "Gustave Caillebotte's Paris: The Uncanny of Everyday Life"; Symposium The Everyday: The Ordinary and the Extraordinary organized by the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, 5 May 2001
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- "A Site for Sight: Monet in his Gardens at Giverny"; The Faculty Talks at Stanford University, 8 March 2001
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- "A Site for Sight: Monet in his Gardens at Giverny"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 8 February 1999
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- "Figurer lhistoire"; Lecture and debate at Centre Louis et Charles Blanc, Université Paris X at Nanterre, 20 March 1998
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- "Langues visibles au XIXe siècle: Notes for an Archaeology"; Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, 25 April 1997
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- "What is a Portrait? Thoughts on seeing "the other" in Pictures"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 9 December 1996
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- "Langues visibles du XIXe siècle: Preliminary Notes for an archaeology"; Symposium to Honor the Memory of George H. Bauer organized by the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 6 December 1966
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- "To See and Not Say: Articulations of Langue and Parole in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture"; Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium Annual Meeting in Toronto, 26 October 1996
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- "The Thrill of Conquest: Structures of Spectating and Simulation in the Galleries of the North African Wars at Versailles"; Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas in Austin, 10 April 1995
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- "The New Paris: Site and Schema of Caillebottes Urban Vision"; The Art Institute of Chicago, 14 March 1995
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- "The New Paris: Site and Schema of Caillebottes Urban Vision"; Duke University Museum of Art, 9 March 1995
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- "Van Gogh’s ‘Madness’: Reading the Symptoms of a Crisis in Painting"; University of MissouriColumbia, 6 February 1994
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- "Van Goghs Madness: Reading the Symptoms of a Crisis in Painting"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 10 October 1994
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- "Narrative Space and Heroic Form: Géricault and the Painting of History"; Lehman Foundation Lecture sponsored by Emory University in Atlanta, 18 March 1993
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- "The Thrill of Conquest: Structures of Spectating and Simulation in the Galleries of the North African Wars at Versailles"; Colloquium Visionen Zeitgenössischer Geschichte organized by the Kunsthalle in Mannheim, 14 January 1993
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- "Espace narratif et forme héroïque : Géricault et la peinture d’histoire"; Colloque Géricault organized by the Musée du Louvre in Paris, 14 November 1991
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- "Caillebottes Pont de lEurope: Site, Sight-Lines, Situations"; CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, 27 September 1991
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- "Edgar Degas: The Art of Seeing"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 11 March 1991
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- "Historical Vision and the Writing of History at Louis-Philippes Versailles"; American Historical Association Annual Meeting in New York, 28 December 1990
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- "The Modernity of Middleness: Re-thinking the Juste Milieu"; Charlotte Whitney Allen Lecture sponsored by the Memorial Art Gallery, the University of Rochester, 27 January 1990
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- "Louis-Philippes Versailles: A History Machine for le Grand Public"; Blake-More Godwin Lecture sponsored by the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 3 November 1989
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- Panel Respondent for "Visual Representations of the French Revolution"; The International Congress on the History of the French Revolution at Georgetown University, 6 May 1989
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- "Louis-Philippes Versailles: A History Machine for the Grand Public"; Symposium Art and the French State organized by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, 7 April 1989
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- "Diagrams of Class and Power: Haussmanns Paris and the Complicity of Gustave Caillebotte"; Yale University Department of the History of Art, 7 March 1989
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- "The Rights of Man, Patriarchal Power, and Images of Political Virtue in Revolutionary France"; SUNY Purchase (New York), 7 February 1989
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- "The Rights of Man, Patriarchal Power, and Images of Political Virtue in Revolutionary France"; Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, 3 February 1989
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- "Edgar Degas: The Art of Seeing"; La Maison Française at Columbia University, 7 December 1988
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- "Gustave Caillebotte and the Image of Modern Paris"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 15 November 1988
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- "Cultural Institutions and the Topography of Art History"; The American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting in Vancouver, 29 October 1988
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- "The Sexual Politics of Public Virtue in Late Eighteenth-Century Painting"; Dartmouth College Department of Art History, 13 May 1988
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- "The Politics of an Anti-Style: Making Art for the Citizen-King"; The Jewish Museum of New York, 27 October 1987
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- "No Women Allowed: Gender and Patriotism in Late Eighteenth-Century Painting"; Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology, 4 March 1987
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- "When Johnny Goes Marching Off To War: Widows, Weepers, and other Women in Neo-Classical Images of Militarism"; Workshop Women and Violence organized by Columbia University in New York City, 1 April 1986
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- "The Garden Paradigm: Gustave Caillebotte and the Limits of Bourgeois Naturalism"; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 7 March 1986
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- "Eugène Delacroix as Painter of Modern Life: Facts and Fantasies of a Romantic Reporter"; Hermitage Foundation of Norfolk, 25 November 1985
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- "On Being French in a World of Change: The Prix de Rome, 1797-1863"; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 15 April 1984
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- "The Impression of Napoléon: From Current Events to Imperial Emblems"; The Fashion Institute of Technology, 21 November 1983
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- "Plein-Airism Before Impressionism"; The Oklahoma Museum of Art, 6 May 1983
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- "Delacroixs Liberty Leading the People: Revolutionary Romance or Political Parti Pris?"; Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology, 14 February 1983
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- "The Fresh Start of 1830 and the Memory of 1789: Images to Inspire the Chambre des Députés"; College Art Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, 5 January 1980
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- "Cézanne and the Old Masters"; The Museum of Modern Art, 25 October 1977
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- "Cézannes Portraits, Figures, and Bathers"; Smithsonian Institution Resident Associate Program, 22 October 1977
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 1994 - 1997
- Member of Steering Committee, Stanford Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution
- 1991 - present
- Occasional Peer Review Reader for The Art Bulletin (publication of the College Art Association)
- 1990 - present
- Occasional Peer Review Reader for Yale University Press
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- American Historical Association
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- College Art Association