Publications.

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Books.

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.

Allison Deutsch, Consuming Painting: Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021.
ISBN 978-0-271-08723-8.

Praise for Consuming Painting

“Consuming Painting offers an impressive new take on the history of late nineteenth-century French art, one that makes clear for the first time the sensorial range in the historical reception of modern painting. In her reevaluation and retranslation of art criticism, combined with her highly persuasive descriptions of a range of paintings, Deutsch shows the sustained discourse of desire and disgust built into the deeply gendered metaphorics of painting as culinary consumption.”—Marnin Young, author of Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time

“While some of the art criticism addressed in Consuming Painting is well known to scholars of Impressionism, Deutsch presents it in a completely new way, showing how art criticism addressed—and often highlighted—the haptic, gustatory, and olfactory aspects of paintings. A smart and promising book.”—Mary Hunter, author of The Face of Medicine: Visualising Medical Masculinities in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris

“Contributing to the existing scholarship on the feminization of Impressionism, Deutsch reconstructs the gendering of these food-based references as female for being rooted in bodily experience, fashion, and consumption.”—A. Luxenberg, Choice

"By considering viewership as a consumptive practice—like eating or cooking—Deutsch leads readers through rich interpretations of works by Manet, Pissarro, and Gustave Caillebotte, among others. An astute observer and authoritative writer, she convincingly shows how culinary culture can serve as an entrée into an exploration of visceral experience, embodiment, and gendered power dynamics." —Christa DiMarco, CAA Reviews

"Overall, Deutsch has drafted a well-informed, innovative, and substantive contribution to the critique of Greenbergian ocularcentrism. Deutsch offers incisive close readings (and especially re-readings) of critical texts, some of which have played a key role in writing the history of the early avant-garde." —Kurt E. Rahmlow, H-France Review

Articles and Chapters.

Allison Deutsch, ‘Chapter Nine: Race and the Problem of Impressionist Skin’
The Routledge Companion to Art and Challenges to Empire Vol. 2, Emily C. Burns and Alice M. Rudy Price, eds. Routledge, In Press, Spring 2025. 8,000 words.

Allison Deutsch, ‘Des œuvres solides et vivantes qu’il rêvait: Rethinking Claude Lantier’s Chef d’œuvre’
Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 53:1-2, Autumn/Winter 2024, pp. 85-106.

Allison Deutsch, ‘The Gender of Food’
Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism, Andrew Eschelbacher, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024, pp. 57-76.
ISBN 978-0-300-27381-6

Co-authored with U. Müller, L. Beyers and I. Van Damme, ‘Food and Art in the Nineteenth Century, Entanglements, Identities, Interpretations’
Food & History, ‘Food and Art in the Nineteenth Century’, edited by Müller, Deutsch, Beyers and Van Damme. 16:2, 2018, pp. 3-12.

Allison Deutsch, ‘The Flesh of Painting: Caillebotte’s Modern Olympia’
Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, vol. 22, issue 1-2, December 2017, pp. 1-22.

Allison Deutsch, ‘Good Taste: Metaphor and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century Art Criticism’
Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, no. 17, 2015, pp. 9-32.

Reviews.

Allison Deutsch, Review of ‘Paris 1874 Inventing Impressionism’
Exh. Musée d’Orsay, 26 Mar.–14 July 2024, The Burlington Magazine, vol. 166, no. 1456, July 2024, pp. 735-38.

Allison Deutsch, Review of Marni Kessler, Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art
Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 50, no. 1-2, 2021, np.

Allison Deutsch, Review of Temma Balducci, Gender, Space, and the Gaze in Post-Haussmann Visual Culture: Beyond the Flâneur
H-France Review, vol. 19, no. 117, June 2019, pp. 1-6.

Allison Deutsch, ‘Parisian Masculinities Revisited’
Review of Michael Marrinan: Gustave Caillebotte: Painting the Paris of Naturalism 1872-1887 and Mary Hunter, The Face of Medicine: Visualising Medical Masculinities in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 41, issue 1, 2018, pp. 119-24.

Allison Deutsch, Review of ‘Splendour and Misery. Pictures of Prostitution, 1850-1910’
Exh. Musée d’Orsay, 22 Sept. 2015–17 Jan. 2016, Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, no. 18, 2016, pp. 71-73.

Publications.

Books.

Allison Deutsch, Consuming Painting: Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0-271-08723-8.

Articles and Chapters.

Allison Deutsch, ‘Chapter Nine: Race and the Problem of Impressionist Skin’ The Routledge Companion to Art and Challenges to Empire Vol. 2, Emily C. Burns and Alice M. Rudy Price, eds. Routledge, In Press, Spring 2025. 8,000 words.

Allison Deutsch, ‘Des œuvres solides et vivantes qu’il rêvait: Rethinking Claude Lantier’s Chef d’œuvre’ Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 53:1-2, Autumn/Winter 2024, pp. 85-106. ​

Allison Deutsch, ‘The Gender of Food’ Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism, Andrew Eschelbacher, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024, pp. 57-76. ISBN 978-0-300-27381-6

Co-authored with U. Müller, L. Beyers and I. Van Damme, ‘Food and Art in the Nineteenth Century, Entanglements, Identities, Interpretations’ Food & History, ‘Food and Art in the Nineteenth Century’, edited by Müller, Deutsch, Beyers and Van Damme. 16:2, 2018, pp. 3-12.

Allison Deutsch, ‘The Flesh of Painting: Caillebotte’s Modern Olympia’ Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, vol. 22, issue 1-2, December 2017, pp. 1-22.

Allison Deutsch, ‘Good Taste: Metaphor and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century Art Criticism’ Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, no. 17, 2015, pp. 9-32.