Elizabeth C. Mansfield is associate professor of art history at New York University. Her publications address topics ranging from seventeenth-century Dutch printmaking and the history of modernism to contemporary obscenity laws governing digital artworks and the surgical performances of Orlan. She has edited two volumes of essays on the institutional history of the discipline of art history and is coediting an anthology on eighteenth-century satire and visuality. Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis, published by the University of Minnesota Press, received the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.