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Faculty

S. Hollis Clayson

Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (1991)
Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained (co-editor; 2000)
Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life Under Siege (1870-71)(2002)

Stephen F. Eisenman

The Temptation of Saint Redon (1992)
Gauguin's Skirt (1997)
Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History (1994/2002/2007)
Nineteenth Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum of Art (co-author; 2006)
The Abu Ghraib Effect (2007)

Jesús Escobar

La Plaza Mayor y los orígenes del Madrid barroco (2008)
The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid (2003)

Sarah E. Fraser

Performing the Visual: Buddhist Wall Painting Practice in China and Central Asia, 618-960 (2004)
Tangsong siyuan caifu he gongyang [Buddhist material culture, temple wealth, and patronage]. (Hu Suxin [Sarah E. Fraser], editor; 2003)
Merit, Opulence, and the Buddhist Network of Wealth (editor; 2003)

Ann Gunter

A Collector's Journey: Charles Lang Freer and Egypt (2005)
Ancient Iranian Metalwork in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art (co-author; 1992)
Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade (editor; 2005)
Greek Art and the Orient (2008)
The Gordion Excavations: Final Reports – The Bronze Age (1981)
Investigating artistic environments in the ancient Near East (editor; 1990)

Christina Kiaer

Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside (co-editor; 2005)
Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (2005)

Claudia Swan

Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629) (2005)
The Clutius Botanical Watercolors (1998/2000)
Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce,and Politics in the Early Modern World (co-editor; 2004)
Perceptible Processes: Minimalism and the Baroque (1996)

Krista Thompson

An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (2006)

David Van Zanten

Walter Burley Griffin: Selected Designs (1970)
The Architectural Polychromy of the 1830's (1977)
Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer (1988)
Building Paris: Architectural Institutions and the Transformation of the French Capital, 1830-1870 (1994)
Sullivan's City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan (2000)

Affiliated Faculty

Bernadette Fort

Fictions of the French Revolution (co-author and editor; 1991)
Le Langage de l'ambiguité dans l'oeuvre de Crébillon fils (1978)
The Mémoires secrets and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France (co-author and editor; 1998)
The Other Hogarth: Aesthetics of Difference (co-author and editor; 2001)
Les Salons des Mémoires secrets (1999)

Hamid Naficy

An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking (2001)
Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place (editor; 1998)
Iran Media Index (1984)
The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles (1993)
Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged (editor; 1993)

Marco Ruffini

Affreschi del cardinale Prospero Santacroce nel Castello di San Gregorio da Sassola: ritratto di un committente (2001)
Le imprese del drago: politica, emblematica e scienze naturali alla corte di Gregorio XIII, 1572-1585 (2005)

Emeritus Faculty

Sandra L. Hindman

Christine de Pizan's Epistre Oth (1986)
The Early Illustrated Book : Essays in Honor of Lessing J. Rosenwald (editor; 1982)
Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age : Recovery and Reconstruction (co-author; 2001)
Medieval & Renaissance Miniature Painting (1988)
Pen to Press : Illustrated Manuscripts and Printed Books in the First Century of Printing (1977)
Printing the Written Word : The Social History of Books, circa 1450-1520 (editor; 1991)
Sealed in Parchment : Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes (1994)
Text and Image in Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Dutch Bibles (1977)
Toward an Art History of Medieval Rings : A Private Collection (co-author; 2008)

O. K. Werckmeister

Citadel Culture (1991)
Icons of the Left : Benjamin and Eisenstein, Picasso and Kafka after the Fall of Communism (1999)
Ideological Crisis of Expressionism : The Literary and Artistic German War Colony in Belgium,1914-1918 (co-author; 1993)
Irisch-northumbrische Buchmalerei des 8. Jahrhunderts und monastische Spiritualitat (1967)
The Making of Paul Klee's Career, 1914-1920 (1989)