My current research and publications are mostly concentrated in two areas: architecture and design in Britain and in Central Europe (primarily Hungary) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I have a particular interest in graphic design, interiors, and print culture, although my recent work has been concerned with public monuments and cultural transfer or emigration. My approach to this body of material is largely concerned with the relationship between contemporary theoretical and critical writings and the actual objects themselves. This dialectical relationship between texts and things lies behind the selected writings of the English architect-designer E.W. Godwin, which I edited with Juliet Kinchin (2005), and various articles and essays on Hungarian designers, such as Károly Kós, Lajos Kozma, and Laszlo Peri.
Author, with Juliet Kinchin, “Is Mr Ruskin Living Too Long?”:
Selected Writings of E.W. Godwin on Victorian Architecture, Design and Culture. Dorchester: White
Cockade Publishing, 2005.
“Commanditaires et luttes de classe dans la
Florence du XIVe siècle: Frederick Antal et Florence et ses peintres.” In Anthologie
de l’histoire de l’art sociale de l’art. Paris: INHA, 2015.
“Hungarian Visual Culture in the First World War.” Austrian
Studies No. 21 (2013): 182-200.
“Double Emigres.” In Transfer-Interdisciplinär!, edited
by E. Gantner. Peter Lang,
2013.
“The Vienna School in Hungary.” Journal
of Art Historiography No. 8. June 2013.
“Public Sculpture in Cluj/Kolozsvár: Identity,
Space and Politics.” In Heritage, Ideology and Identity in Central and
Eastern Europe, edited by M. Rampley. Boydell Press, 2012.
“Frederick Antal and Laszlo Peri: Art,
Scholarship and Social Purpose,” Visual Culture in Britain. (Summer 2012).
“American Circus Posters.” In The
American Circus, edited by M. Wittman and S. Weber. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2012.
“The Cult of Velazquez” and “The Spanish Civil
War.” In The Discovery of Spain, ex.
cat. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2009.
