Aileen Tsui
Education
- B.A., Yale University
- M.A., Harvard University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests
- American, British, and French art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Aestheticism and modernism
- exoticism in/and visual culture, especially Japonisme
- feminist theories and histories of the visual arts
- relationships between image and text
- color and its histories
Course Offerings
- Introduction to the History of Western Art
- Body, Nature and Nation in American Art
- Photography’s First Century
- Romanticism to Post-Impressionism
- Modern Art
- Art Since 1960
- Early American Modernisms
- Women Artists and Feminist Art History
- Methods of Art History
- Whistler and Transnational Modernism
- Color in Art and Culture
Selected Publications
- “‘A Harmony in Eggs and Milk’: Gustatory Synesthesia in the Reception of Whistler’s Art,” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 3, no. 2 (Fall 2017)
- “The Painter as Collector: East Asian Objects and James McNeill Whistler’s Abstracting Eye,” in Inventing Asia: American Perspectives around 1900, ed. Alan Chong and Noriko Murai (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and University of Hawaii Press, 2014)
- “Whistler’s La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine: Painting Re-Oriented,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 9, no. 2 (Autumn 2010)
- “The Evanescence of the Butterfly: Effects of Aging on Whistler’s Paintings,” Nineteenth Century 29, vol.1 (Spring 2009)
- Interview in the Washington College Magazine
- “The Phantasm of Aesthetic Autonomy in Whistler’s Work: Titling The White Girl,” Art History 29, vol. 3 (June 2006)