[1] Eisenman is the author of nine books including Gauguin's Skirt (1997), The Abu Ghraib Effect (2007), and The Cry of Nature – Art and the Making of Animal Rights (2013).
[2][3] He has curated major exhibitions in the United States and Europe and is the principal author and editor of the textbook Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History (fourth edition 2010).
Eisenman has curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including Paul Gauguin - Artist of Myth and Dream (2007), Design in the Age of Darwin (2008), and The Ecology of Impressionism (2010).
The catalog for his exhibition, William Blake in the Age of Aquarius Northwestern's Block Museum (September 2017 to March 2018) was among The New York Times' The Best Art Books of 2017.
His article "The Intransigent Artist, Or How the Impressionists Got Their Name", published in the catalogue for the exhibition, The New Painting, Impressionism, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986, is frequently cited and has twice been anthologized.