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From the beginning of my career as an art historian (35 years of which spent as a professor at Northwestern University, just north of Chicago), I have concentrated on the study of art practices situated in Paris, the CAPITAL OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (per Benjamin). Among many publications, I wrote three books (monographs) on Paris-based work: art and prostitution, art and war, art and artificial illumination. As professor emerita, I’ve shifted to the analysis of art produced in Paris vis-à-vis the French Empire, e.g., my current book underway, THE DARK SIDE OF THE EIFFEL TOWER.
-Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era, New Haven and Lon- don: Yale University Press, 1991. Paperback reprint, Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publica- tions, 2003. Getty Virtual Library: http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtualli- brary/0892367296.html. A&AePortal: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22813
-Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained, co-edited with Alexan- der Sturgis, London: Mitchell Beazley; New York: Watson-Guptill, 2000. Spanish, Portu- guese, Russian, Hungarian, German and French editions, 2002-03.
-Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-71), Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Paperback, 2005.
–Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? Essays in Art and Modernity, 1850- 1900, co-edited with André Dombrowski, New York and London: Routledge, 2016. Pa- perback, 2019.
-Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. H-France Forum, Volume 15, Issue 5, 2020.