Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women & Modern Life, University of California Press In Looking into Degas Eunice Lipton illuminates the work of Edgar Degas, noted Impressionist painter and reputed misogynist. Lipton, a well known feminist art historian, unpredictably turns the accusation of misogyny on its head. She looks at Degas’s laundresses, milliners, ballet…

A Distant Heartbeat: A War, a Disappearance, and a Family’s Secrets, University of New Mexico Press On May 20, 1938, a young man from the Bronx informs his parents that he is leaving for the Catskills to begin his new job as a waiter. Instead, he sails for Europe to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade…

Alias Olympia: A Woman’s Search for Manet’s Notorious Model and Her Own Desire, Cornell University Press (previously Scribner’s + Penguin) EUNICE LIPTON WAS A fledgling art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the model who appeared in Edouard Manet’s most famous paintings—Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass–only to vanish from history in…

French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust, Carroll & Graf Publishers FRENCH SEDUCTION is a fierce book about pleasure and hatred. Growing up in the Bronx, Lipton falls in love with France across her father’s Parisian fantasies and his own unpredictable charms. He beguiles her with stories of French cafés,…