Allison E. Deutsch, PhD
Associate Lecturer
School of Historical Studies
Birkbeck College, University of London
Departmental Tutor
Department of Continuing Education
University of Oxford
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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
I am an art historian specialising in the art and material culture of nineteenth-century France.
Left: Detail, Berthe Morisot, Hanging the Laundry out to Dry, 1875, oil on canvas, 33 x 40.6 cm, Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Centre: Detail, Camille Pissarro, The Gardener - Old Peasant with Cabbage, 1883-1895, oil on canvas, 81.5 x 65 cm, Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Right: Detail, Edgar Degas, Woman Ironing, begun c. 1876, completed c. 1887, oil on canvas, 81.3 × 66 cm, Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Publications.
In Consuming Painting, Allison Deutsch challenges the pervasive view that Impressionism was above all about visual experience. Focusing on the language of food and consumption as they were used by such prominent critics as Baudelaire and Zola, she writes new histories for familiar works by Manet, Monet, Caillebotte, and Pissarro and creates fresh possibilities for experiencing and interpreting them.
Teaching.
I teach a wide range of courses for undergraduate and graduate students, museum publics, and adult learners.
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