Debora Silverman
Distinguished Professor Emeritus and University of California Presidential Chair in Modern European History, Art and Culture at UCLA
Degrees
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1983
Selected 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
Previous Courses by Term
Topics in History: Modern Europe
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Topics in History: Modern Europe
Advanced Historiography: Europe
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Topics in History: Modern Europe
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Topics in History: Modern Europe
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Topics in History: Modern Europe
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Seminar: Modern European History
Seminar: Modern European History
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Topics in History: Modern Europe
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Seminar: Modern European History
Seminar: Modern European History
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Advanced Historiography: Europe
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Introduction to Historical Practice
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe: 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice
Special Topics in European Studies
History of France: The Making of Modern France, 1871 to the Present
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe: 19th Century
Introduction to Historical Practice
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe: 19th Century
Previous Courses by Course
Topics in History: Modern Europe
2019 Spring Quarter
2018 Winter Quarter
2015 Spring Quarter
2014 Spring Quarter
2013 Winter Quarter
2010 Spring Quarter
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
2019 Winter Quarter
2018 Winter Quarter
2017 Winter Quarter
2015 Winter Quarter
2014 Winter Quarter
2013 Winter Quarter
2011 Winter Quarter
2010 Winter Quarter
2009 Winter Quarter
2008 Winter Quarter
2007 Winter Quarter
2005 Winter Quarter
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
2018 Fall Quarter
2018 Spring Quarter
2016 Fall Quarter
2014 Fall Quarter
2013 Fall Quarter
2012 Fall Quarter
2010 Fall Quarter
2009 Fall Quarter
2008 Fall Quarter
2007 Fall Quarter
2006 Fall Quarter
2004 Fall Quarter
Advanced Historiography: Europe
2017 Spring Quarter
2005 Spring Quarter
Seminar: Modern European History
2011 Fall Quarter
2008 Fall Quarter
Seminar: Modern European History
2011 Spring Quarter
2008 Spring Quarter
Introduction to Historical Practice
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe, 19th Century
2004 Winter Quarter
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe: 19th Century
History of France: The Making of Modern France, 1871 to the Present
2001 Spring Quarter
Special Topics in European Studies
2001 Spring Quarter
Art, Politics, and Social Change in 19th-Century England and France