David M. Lubin

David M. Lubin (born November 24, 1950) is an American writer, professor, curator, and scholar. He has published eight books on American art, film, and popular culture.

Books in order of publication:

Act of Portrayal: Eakins, Sargent, James (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985)

Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994)

Titanic (London: British Film Institute, 1999)

Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003)

Flags and Faces: The Visual Culture of America’s First World War (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015)

Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)

World War I and American Art, exhibition catalogue, co-edited with Robert Cozzolino and Anne Knutson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, 2016)

Ready for My Close-up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of Hollywood (Grand Central Publishing, 2025)