Debora Silverman

Debora Silverman

Distinguished Professor Emeritus and University of California Presidential Chair in Modern European History, Art and Culture at UCLA

Email: silverma@history.ucla.edu

Office: 9337 Bunche Hall

Phone: 310-825-5066

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Field of Study

Europe

Publications

  • “Frantz Jourdain, Architect of the French Modern Style,” The Encyclopedia of Architects, Macmillan Press.
  • “Sigmund Freud and Jean-Martin Charcot: Liberal Legacies and the Scope of Psychological Innovations” in Vienna, 1880-1930, L’Apocalypse Joyeuse, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1986.
  • Selling Culture, Pantheon, 1986.
  • Amerika halt hof, Rowolt, 1990.
  • Art Noveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology and Style, U.C. Press, 1989. French translation, 1993.
  • “Pilgrim’s Progress and Vincent Van Gogh’s Metier,” in M. Bailey, ed., Van Gogh in England, 1992.
  • “The New Woman, Modernism and the Decorative Arts in Fin-de-Siecle France,” in Lynn Hunt, ed., Eroticism and the Body Politic in Modern France, 1990.
  • “Religious and Social Origins of Van Gogh’s Craft Labor,” in M. Roth, ed., Rediscovering History, 1994.
  • “At the Threshold of Symbolism, 1888: Gauguin’s Vision After the Sermon and Van Gogh’s Sower in Symbolist Europe,” Lost Paradise, 1995.
  • Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art, Farrar, Straus & Gireux, 2000
  • Weaving the Picture: A Life of Vincent van Gogh, in progress

Degrees

Ph.D. Princeton University, 1983