publications

books:

• (with Gabriel P. Weisberg), Art Nouveau: A Research Guide for Design Reform in France, Belgium, England,and the United States. New York: Garland, 1998.
• The Complete Mayeux: Use and Abuse of a French Icon . Berne: Peter Lang, 1997

book essays:

• "Images of Pleasure and Vice: Women on the Fringe," contracted essay Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture, pp. 36-71, ed. Gabriel P. Weisberg, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutger's University Press, 2001.
• "The Excrement of Power: Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi and Paris Dada," Paris Dada: The Barbarians Storm the Gates, Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada, vol. VI,, pp. 33-66. ed. Elmer Peterson, New York: G.K. Hall, 2001.

• "Fashion, Commercial Culture and the Femme-Fatale: Development of a Feminine Icon in the French Popular Press,"Analecta Husserliana. The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, vol. LIII, The Reincarnating Mind or the Ontopoietic Outburst in Creative Virtualities, pp. 363-379. Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
• "The Image that Speaks: the Significance of M. Mayeux," in The Popularization of Images: Visual Culture Under the July Monarchy (1830-1848), pp. 37-57. Edited by Petra Chu and Gabriel P. Weisberg, Princeton University Press, 1994.

articles:

• "The Utopian Mayeux: Saint-Simon meets the bossu a la mode," Canadian Journal of History/ Annales Canadiennes d'Histoire XXXIII (August, 1998), pp. 249-277. The full text of this article is available at www.usask.ca/history/cjh/meno_898.htm
• "Visual Culture and Issues of Gender," Choice, July/August 1998, pp. 1809-1823. A summary of this article is available at www.ala.org/acrl/choice/prvolume.html#35-jul
• "Tout Mayeux," Nouvelles de l'Estampe, no. 158 (May, 1998), pp. 6-27.
• "Pierre-Paul Prud'hon's Union of Love and Friendship Reconsidered" Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. CXXX, (November 1997), pp. 155-166.
• "The Science of Deformity: Mayeux le bossu and the Romantic Grotesque," European Romantic Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (Summer, 1996), pp. 26-39. This article is referenced at www.rc.umd.edu/publications/Periodicals/euroromantic.html
• "Henry Somm: Impressionist, Japoniste or Symbolist?" Master Drawings, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 3-29.
• "Philipon, Dr. Pinel, Ste-Pelagie and La Caricature" Source: Notes in the History of Art vol. 14, no. 1, (Fall, 1994), pp. 32-38.
• "Victor Hugo and the Hunchbacks of the July Monarchy" Studies in the Humanities, vol. 21, no. 1 (June, 1994), pp. 60-71.
• "Potty Talk in Parisian Plays: Henry Somm's La Berline de l'Emigre and Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi." Art Journal vol. 52, no. 3,
  (Fall, 1993), pp. 59-64.
• "Henry Somm's Japonisme, (1881) in Context," Gazette des Beaux -Arts, February, 1992, pp. 89-98.

exhibition catalog entries:

• Catalog entries for prints and drawings by Henry Somm in Women of Fashion: French and American Images of Leisure1880-1920, p. 148, 152, 153. Tokyo: Art Life Ltd., 1993.
  

encyclopedia entries:

• "Japonisme" (with Gabriel P. Weisberg) for The Eighteen Nineties: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art and Culture. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, pp. 318-320.
• "Art Nouveau" (with Gabriel P. Weisberg) for The Eighteen Nineties: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art and Culture. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, pp. 21-22

currently under consideration:

• "Decadent Addictions: Women Drinking and Smoking in Fin-de-Siecle Cafes and Cabarets"
  (essay under consideration for inclusion in a book of essays, University of Delaware Press).

writing and research in progress:

• Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme-Fatale in Nineteenth-Century France.
• Paper Ladies: Images of Women in French Popular Culture. (book project).
• Le Vice Supreme: Prostitution and Witchcraft in fin-de-siecle Paris. (book project).
• Design: History and Theory. (textbook project).
• "Serpent Culture: A Context for Toulouse-Lautrec's Poster of Jane Avril" (article).
• "Anatomy of a Motif: The Metaphorical Foetus" (article).
• "Art History Through A Glass, Darkly: Cynical Truth in the work of Leriche, Morimura and Sherman," paper accepted for presentation at SPE, Las Vegas NV, March, 2002.
• "Topographical Pleasures of Paris: French National Identity according to La Vie Parisienne" paper accepted for presentation at 6th Conference of Urban Historians, Edinburgh, UK, September, 2002.
• "The Future of the Present: Albert Robida, Henri Desmarest and the Women's Rights Movement," proposed for Nineteenth-Century Studies Association annual conference, Savannah, GA, March 2002.
• "Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme-Fatale in 19th-century France," paper proposed for a symposium at the University of Chicago-Loyola, April, 2002.
• "Let's Get Subconscious: Madonna -- Surrealism -- Poststructuralism," paper proposed for MAHS, Milwaukee, WI, April, 2002.
• "Postmodern Material Girl: Appropriation, Deconstruction, the Gaze and Madonna," paper proposed for a conference sponsored by the Association of Women Art Historians, Berlin, Germany, July, 2002.

Illustration from Evil by Design