Albert P. Boime Professor of Art History UCLA 405 Hilgard Avenue 100 Dodd Hall Los Angeles CA 90095-1417 boime@humnet.ucla.edu

(above: dust jacket to The Art of Exclusion, Albert Boime) (at right: dust jacket to The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento, Albert Boime) Publications and Papers

Books

• The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century, London, 1971
• Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision, London and New Haven, 1980
• The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century, 2nd Edition, with new introduction, New Haven, 1986
• "Art in the Age of Revolution," Vol. I in A Social History of Modern Art in Five Volume, University of Chicago Press, 1987. Translated as Historia social del arte moderno: El arte en la epoca de la revolucion 1750-1800, Madrid, 1994.
• Hollow Icons: The Politics of Nineteenth Century French Sculpture, Kent State University Press, 1987
• Van Gogh's "Starry Night" (German Version), Kunststuck Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1989
• Van Gogh La Nuit Etoilee (French Version) Adam Biro, 1990
• Artisti e Imprenditori, Bollati Boringhieri Editore, Turin, January 1990
• The Art of Exclusion: Representing Black People in the Nineteenth Century, Smithsonian Institution Press, January 1990
• "Simon Dinnerstein's family Romance," Simon Dinnerstein's Art, University of Arkansas Press, 1990 (Main text of book)
• "Art in the Age of Bonapartism" Vol. II, in A Social History of Modern Art in Five Volumes, University of Chicago Press, 1991
• Manifest Destiny and the Magisterial Gaze in Nineteenth Century American Painting, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991
• The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento: Representing Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Italy, University of Chicago Press, 1993
• Art and the French Commune, Imaging Paris After War and Revolution, Princeton University Press, 1995

Articles

• "Le Musee des copies", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, October 1964
• "Seurat and Piero della Francesca," Art Bulletin, June 1965
• "A Source for Van Gogh's Potato-Eaters," Gazette des Beaux Arts, October 1966
• "Roy Lichtenstein and the Comic Strip," Art Journal, Winter 1968
• "Monkey Drawings by Seurat and Pisanello, Burlington Magazine, February 1969
• "Thomas Couture and the Evolution of Nineteenth-Century French Painting," Art Bulletin, March 1969
• "Did Girodet Sign Somebody Else's Work?" Gazette des Beaux Arts, October 1969
• "Georges Rouault and the Academic Curriculum, Art Journal, Fall 1969
• "Stony Brook Architecture: A Promising Future After a Dull Beginning," Stony Brook Union, April 1970
• "Notes on Daubigny's Early Chronology," Art Bulletin, June 1970
• "A Visit to Mondrianland," Artsmagazine, June 1970
• "The Salon des Refuses and the Evolution of Modern Art," The Art Quarterly, Spring 1970
• "George Sauter's Bridal Morning," American Art Journal, November 1970
• "Shica Greenberg and Jewish Art," Dimensions in American Judaism, September 1970
• "Picasso's Night Fishing at Antibes: One More Try," Journal of Aesthetics, Winter 1970
• "An Unpublished Petition Exemplifying the Oneness of the Community of Nineteenth-Century French Artists," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1970
• "The Second Republic's Contest for the Figure of the Republic," Art Bulletin, March 1971
• "Jean-Leon Gerome, Henry Rousseau's Sleeping Gypsy and the Academic Legacy," The Art Quarterly, Spring 1971
• "Cosmic Artifacts: Works in Lucite by Ron Lusker," Art Journal, Winter 1971-1972
• "Thomas Nast and French Art," American Art Journal, May 1972
• "Ingress et Egress chez Ingres," Gazette des Beaux Arts, April 1973
• "New Light on Manet's Execution of Maximilian," The Art Quarterly, Fall 1973
• "Ryder and Newman," Art News, January 1974
• "We Don't Want to Set the World on Fire, We just Want to Start a Flame in Your Heart," in Catalogue, Art Pompier: Anti- Impressionism, Hofstra University, October 1974
• "Strictly Academic: Life Drawing in the Nineteenth Century," Catalogue Essay, Binghamton, 1974
• "Charles Gleyre and the Evolution of 19th-Century Painting," in Charles Gleyre, Catalogue essay, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1974
• "Sources for Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, May 1975
• "Entrepreneurial Patronage in Nineteenth-Century France," in Enterprise and Entrepreneurs in 19th and 20th Century France, the Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1976
• "The Teaching Reforms of 1863 and the Origins of Modernism in France," Art Quarterly, Autumn 1977
• "Don DeMauro and the Struggle Against the Artist's Mystique," Catalogue essay, Binghamton, 1977
• "The Image of the Drummer Boy in Nineteenth-Century Painting," Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of the Arts," January 1978
• "There is Some Accounting for Taste," Burlington Magazine, September 1978
• "Les hommes d'affaires et les arts in France au 19eme siecle," Actes de la recherche, June 1979 (French adaptation of preceding article)
• "The Second Empire Exhibition," Histoire et critique des arts, No. 11-12, 1979
• "Marmontel's Belisarius and David's Pre-Revolutionary Progressivism," Art History, March 1980
• "The Enrollment of the Volunteers and the Revolution of 1848," in Thomas Couture and the Painting of History, catalogue Museum of Art, Springfield, 1980
• "Ford Madox Brown Carlyle, and Karl Marx: Meaning and Mystification of Work in the Nineteenth Century," Arts Magazine, September 1981
• "Newman, Ryder, Couture and Hero-Worship in Art History," The American Art Journal, November 1981
• "The Case of Rosa Bonheur: Why should a Woman be more like a man?" Art History, December 1981
• "Les magnats americains a la conquete de l'art francais," L'histoire, April 1982
• "American culture and the revival of the French Academic Tradition," Arts Magazine, May 1982
• "The Unhappy Medium: An Exchange," The New York Review of Books, October 21, 1982
• "The Teaching of Fine Arts and the Avant-Garde in France during the second half of the Nineteenth-Century," VII Colloquium of the Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, 1982
• "The Second Empire's Official Realism: in The European Realist Tradition, Bloomington, Indiana, 1982
• "Lawrence Fane: The Sculpture in Pursuit of his Quarry," Catalogue essay for Marilyn Pearl Gallery, 1982
• "Gerome and the Bourgeois Artist's Burden," Arts Magazine, January 1983
• "Oller and 19th-Century Puerto Rican Nationalism," in Francisco Oller, A Realist-Impressionist, Museo de Art, Ponce, 1983
• "The Prix de Rome: Images of Authority and threshold of Official Success," Art Journal, Vol. 44, Fall 1984
• "Van Gogh's Starry Night: A History of Matter and a Matter of History, Arts Magazine, December 1984
• "Declassicizing the Academic: A Realist View of Ingres," Art History, March 1985
• "The Quasi-Open Contests of the Quasi-Legitimate July Monarchy," Arts Magazine, March 1985
• "Francisco Oller and the Image of Black People in the Nineteenth Century," Horizontes: Revista de la Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico, Ponce, P.R., vol. 28, April 1985
• "William Blake and the Industrial Revolution," Art Magazine, June 1985
• "The Teaching of Fine Arts and the Avant-Garde in France during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century," Arts Magazine, December 1985
• "Liberty: Inside Story of a Hollow Symbol," In These Times, June 11-24, 1986
• "Caspar David Friedrich: The Monk at the Seaside," Arts Magazine, November 1986
• "Painted Pomp: Setting the World on Fire," FMR, December 1986
• "The Macchiaioli and The Risorgimento," essay for catalogue, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986 (Italian translation "I Macchiaioli e l'America," Italian Congress, 1992
• "Sargent in Paris and London: Portrait of the Artist as Dorian Gray," essay for catalogue John Singer Sargent, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986
• "La Statue de la Liberte: une icone vide," le debat, March-May 1987 ("Ein alterer Schlauch. Zur Geschichte der Freiheits-statue," Freibeuter 38, 1989 - German adaptation of above work)
• "Political Signification and Ambiguity in the Oil Sketch," Arts Magazine, September 1987
• "The Macchiaioli: Art and History," Arts Magazine, January 1988
• "Jacques-Louis David, Scatalogical Discourse in the French Revolution, and The Art of Caricature," Arts Magazine, February 1988 (Reprinted in Catalogue French Caricature and the French Revolution,1789-1799, Edited by James Cuno, UCLA, 1988
• "Burgoo and Bourgeois: Thomas Noble's Images of Black People," essay for catalogue on Thomas Noble, University of Kentucky Art Museum, April, 1988
• Foreword to Andrew W. Brainerd, The Infanta Adventure and the Lost Manet, Long Beach, Michigan City, Indiana, Reichl Press 1988
• "Blacks in Shark-Infested Water: Visual Encodings of Racism in Copley and Homer," Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Winter 1989
• "Caspar David Friedrich," article for Electa History of European society, vol. 2, The Age of Revolutions: 1776-1815, 1989
• "Olin Levi Warner's Defense of the Paris Commune," Archives of American Art Journal, 1989
• "The Chocolate Venus, Tainted Pork, Wine Blight the Tariff: Franco-American Soup at the Exposition Universelle of 1889," in Catalogue for Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, published by Henry Abrams, 1989
• "The 1848 Contests for the Symbolic figure of the Republic as a Vent for Domestic and Foreign Reaction, Album Amicorum, Kenneth C. Lindsay, March 1990
• "Seurat and the Scientific Approach to History Painting," Historie und Historienmalerei in der Malerei des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, edited by Ekkehard Mai, Munich, March 1990 Translated excerpt, "Seurat: Building a Utopia from a City in Ashes," The Journal of Art, November 1991
• "The Responses of Two Prussian Painters to the Revolutions of 1848," Art History, March 1990
• "Waving the Red flag and Reconstituting Old Glory,: Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Spring 1990
• Preface to Lois Fink, American Artists at the Paris Salons, Cambridge University Press, 1990
• "Turner's Slave-Ship and the Condition of England," Turner Studies, Summer 1990
• "Gericault and Georget: Images of Monomaniacs to Service the Alienist's Monomania," Oxford Art Journal, Spring 1990
• "Patriarchy fixed in Stone," American Art, Winter/Spring, 1991
• "Alfred Rethel's Counterrevolutionary Death Dance," Art Bulletin, December 1991
• "Louis-Leopold Boilly's Reading of the XIth and XIIth Bulletins of the Grande Armee," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, 1992
• "Leaves of Grass and Real Allegory: A Case Study of International Rebellion," Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts, eds. G.M. Sill and R.k. Tarbell, Rutgers University Press, 1992
• "The Sketch and Caricature as Metaphors for the French Revolution," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, 1992
• "Les Themes du Serment: David et la Franc-Maconnerie," David contre David, Paris, 1993
• "The Postwar Definition of Self: Marisol's Yearbook Illustrations for the Class of '49," American Art, Spring 1993
• "Manet's Bar at the Folies- Bergere as an Allegory of Nostalgia," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, No. 2, 1993
• The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento: Art and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Italy, University of Chicago Press, 1993
• "Henry Ossawa Tanner's Subversion of Genre," Art Bulletin, September 1993
• "Going to Extremes over the Juste Milieu," in The Popularization of Images Visual Culture under the July Monarchy, Princeton University Press, 1994
• "Ryder on a Gilded Horse," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, 1994
• "The Americanization of El Greco" (for International Symposium celebrating 450th Anniversary of the painter on Crete, El Greco in Crete, 1995
• "Perestroika and the Toppling of the Statues," Totalitarianisms and Traditions, 1995
• "Van Gogh and Thomas Nast," in Hofstra University publication of Van Gogh symposium, 1996

Reviews

• "Academic Yes, Decadent No," The New York Times, September 29, 1969
• "A Landscapist for all Seasons and Dr. Jekyll and Martin Heade," Burlington Magazine, May 1970
• "A la Mode and Haute Couture," Burlington Magazine, May 1970
• "The Uncrowned Touches of Thomas Couture," Thomas Couture: Drawings and Some Oil Sketches. May-June 1971, Shepherd Gallery
• "Le Deroulement des Enroles," Preface Thomas Couture exhibition, Beauvais, France, May 1971
• "The Comic Stripped and Ash Canned," Review of the Catalogue The Art of the Comic Strip, Art Journal, Spring 1973
• Review of Hugh Honour's The Image of the Black in Western Art, vol. IV, The New York Times Book Review, February 1989
• "Vincent and Theo: a Tale of Two Brothers," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, 1994

Miscellaneous

Documentary film on the FILM New Realists (above: dust jacket to Art and the French Commune, Imaging Paris After War and Revolution, Albert Boime)


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