Art in France 1937-1968

Books

• French Modernisms: Perspectives on Art before, during and after Vichy, Cambridge University Press, 2001

• Artists under Vichy: A Case of Prejudice and Persecution, Princeton University Press, 1992, a revised version of a Ph.D. thesis entitled Art and Politics in France, 1940-1944 (UMI, 1988).

Articles, Essays, Book Reviews

• “Did Maratier Save Gertrude Stein’s Art Collection during Vichy?” Modernism/Modernity, Forums/Interventions, (November 21, 2017)

• “Francis Picabia’s War” Francis Picabia: Ours Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, 2016) 

• “From a Nation Torn” Book review of From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962 by Hannah Feldman, American Historical Review Vol 119, No. 5, (Winter 2014-15)

• “The Art of War” Book review of Art and the Second World War by Monica Bohm-Duchen in Art In America Vol. 102, No. 11, (December 2014)

• “Killed by Matisse in 1941, Courthion’s interviews are resurrected” Art in America online (June 18, 2013)

• “Leo Castelli’s First Steps In the Art World: A Surrealist Event in Paris Opens on July 5, 1939” Artnet Magazine (July 2010) 

• “Secrets of the Mexican Suitcase” Artnet Magazine (October 15, 2010)

• “Exhibiting with the Enemy” Book review in Art in America Vol. 97, No. 4, (April 2009)

• “Overcoming a Tainted Past: Cioran, Eliade, Ionesco, l’Oubli du Fascisme”  Book review in TELOS: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 146, (Spring 2009) 

• “Remembering Arno Breker: My visit to Hitler’s Favorite Sculptor” Artnet Magazine (July 31, 2006)

• “Matisse and the Nationalism of Vichy 1940-1944” Artnet Magazine (December 19, 2005)

• “The Early Career and Formative Years of Pierre Restany” The Florence Gould Lectures (Volume VI, 2002-2004)

• “Fascist Furnishings” Exhibition Review in Art in America Vol. 91, No. 4, (April 2003)

• “Wartime Gilt: French Furniture of the ‘40s” Exhibition Review in Art in America Vol. 87, No. 9, (September 1999)

• “Circumventing Picasso: Jean Paulhan and his Artists” Picasso and the War Years 1937-1945 at the Guggenheim Museum (Thames & Hudson, 1998) 

• “French art of the Present in Nazi Berlin” The Art Bulletin Vol. 80, No. 3, (September 1998)

• Dictionary of World War II: The Occupation, Vichy and the Resistance 3 entries, and numerous citations (Greenwood Press, 1998)

• “Decadence and renewal in the decorative arts under Vichy” Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy (Princeton U. Press, 1997)

• “Preparing for Vichy” Book review of in Art in America Vol. 84, No. 5, (May 1996)

• “Vampires, Viruses and Lucien Rebatet: Anti-Semitic Art Criticism during Vichy” The Jew in the Text: Modernity and the Construction of Identity, edited by Linda Nochlin (Thames & Hudson, 1995)

• “Memorial to Walter Benjamin by Dani Karavan” Sculpture Vol. 14, (March/April 1995)

• “The Mature Germaine Richier, the Young César: Expressionist Confluences in French Postwar Sculpture” Art Journal Vol. 53, No. 4, (Winter 1994)

• “Memorializing the Holocaust” Book review of The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meanings by James E. Young, Art Journal Vol. 53, No. 1, (Spring 1994)

• “‘Abstract’ Art as a Veil: Tricolor Painting in Vichy France” Art Bulletin Vol. 74, No. 2, (June, 1992) 

• Le regime de Vichy, l’Occupation Nazie et la Critique d’art: L’art et les Revolutions Changements et continuité dans la création artistique des révolutions politiques Section 2 (Congrès international d’Histoire de l’Art, Strasbourg, 1989)

• “Desnos, Picasso, Girodias, trois comparses de fortune” L’Herne: Robert Desnos (L’Herne, 1987)

• Interviews with the Nazi sculptor Arno Breker and with WWII French artists are on tape at the Columbia Libraries