About the Author

Claude Cernuschi, professor of art history at Boston College, received his MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has authored Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance; Jackson Pollock: “Psychoanalytic” Drawings; Not an Illustration but the Equivalent: A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism; and Re/Casting Kokoschka: Ethics and Aesthetics, Epistemology and Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. Dr. Cernuschi has also contributed essays to Birth of the Modern Style and Identity in Vienna 1900; Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault; Pollock Matters; A New Key: Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection; Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection; Matta: Making the Invisible Visible; Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin; Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression; and Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists. He has also published articles in the Art Bulletin; Art History; Word & Image; Religion and the Arts; German Quarterly; Physics Today; the Archives of American Art Journal; the Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Source: Notes in the History of Art; and Arts Magazine.