Absorption and Theatricality

Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot

1980

Art and Objecthood

Essays and Reviews

1998

Courbet's Realism

1990

La place du spectateur

esthétique et origines de la peinture moderne

1980

Manet's Modernism

or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s

1996

Menzel's Realism

Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin

2002

Painting with Demons

The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo

2021

Realism, Writing, Disfiguration

On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane

1987

The Moment of Caravaggio

2010

The Next Bend in the Road

2004

To the Center of the Earth

1995

Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before

2008