Debora Leah Silverman is professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Modern European History, Art and Culture at the

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. She received her PhD from

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in 1983. She is a specialist in the history of

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. She was a Guggenheim fellow in 1992 in fine arts research. Silverman is the author of ''Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style'' (1989) which was a co-winner of the Berkshire History prize, and ''Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art'' (2001) which was awarded a Ralph Waldo Emerson National Prize for Best Book in the Humanities and a PEN American Center Architectural Digest Prize for "outstanding writing on the visual arts." She was awarded a fellowship from

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for 2015–16.Debora Silverman receives 2015-16 fellowship from New York Public Library.
Meg Sullivan, UCLA, 1 May 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2016.

Selected publications

* "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. * ''Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology and Style'', University of California Press, 1989. * ''Amerika halt hof'', Rowolt, 1990. * "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. * "Pilgrim's Progress and Vincent Van Gogh's Metier," in M. Bailey, ed., ''Van Gogh in England'', 1992. * "Religious and Social Origins of Van Gogh's Craft Labor," in M. Roth, ed., ''Rediscovering History'', 1994. * ''Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art'', Farrar, Straus & Gireux, 2000

References

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