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.

In a much-noted survey of scholarship in American art written for the Art Bulletin, Stanford art historian Wanda Corn identified Lubin, then at the start of his career, as "one of the most provocative representatives" of a new mode of "interpretive criticism has transfigured the close-up study of the single work of art." According to the French cultural historian François Brunet, "Lubin shows himself to be an innovative, indeed, iconoclastic historian of art, in organizing the confrontation of genres and visual registers—painting, photography, chromolithographs, advertisements, postcards—to explore the social and cultural values associated with the image from the middle of the 19th century to start of the 20th."