James D. Herbert

University of California, Irvine

January–June 2003

James D. Herbert is professor and chair of the department of art history at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include Paris 1937: Worlds on Exhibition (Cornell University Press, 1998) and Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics (Yale University Press, 1992). At the Clark, Herbert will pursue his work in progress, tentatively titled Gods, King, and Other Self-Made Men: Sight and Character in France from Louis XIV’s Versailles to Monet’s Orangerie, a study spanning three and a half centuries of French cultural life.