Richard Neer
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Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley – Richard Neer works on the relation of stylistic and political histories, with particular reference to the ancient Mediterranean in general and Athens in particular. Interests include: the development of naturalism in Greek art; Athenian history and questions of representation; architectural sculpture and the politics of dedication; philosophical aesthetics and theories of style. He has published widely on Greek vase-painting, sculpture and architecture; the theoretical bases of attribution; historiography; Nicolas Poussin; and French cinema. He is currently writing a textbook, Ancient Greek Art and Archaeology, under contract with Thames & Hudson. He is Co-Editor of the journal Critical Inquiry.
Recent Publications
- Theory of Sculpture: The Emergence of the Classical Style, (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
- Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, circa 530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge, 2002).
- Athenian Red-Figure Closed Vessels from the Collection of Molly and Walter Bareiss. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Malibu, J., Paul Getty Museum, Fascicule 7, (Malibu, 1997).
- "Connoisseurship: From Ethics to Evidence." in 'Reading' Ancient Greek Images: Approaches and Modes of Representation (FS Sourvinou-Inwood), eds. Dimitrios Yatromanolakis.
- "The Incontinence of Civic Authority in Athenian Vase-Painting," in The World of Greek Vases, eds. V. Nørskov (Copenhagen, forthcoming).
- "Godard Counts," Critical Inquiry 33 (2007).
- "The Rule of Style, or, Isabel Archer's History of Art," in L'Ordre des disciplines, eds. R. Morrissey. (University of Chicago Press Paris Notebooks, forthcoming).
- "Delphi, Olympia, and the Art of Politics." in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece, eds. H. A. Shapiro (Cambridge, forthcoming).
- "Poussin and the Ethics of Imitation," Forthcoming in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.
- "Connoisseurship and the Stakes of Style." Critical Inquiry 32 (2005): pp. 1-26.
- "The Athenian Treasury at Delphi and the Material of Politics." in Classical Antiquity 22 (2004): pp. 63-93.
- "Reaction and Response." in Critical Inquiry 30 (2004): pp. 472-76.
- "Poussin, Titian, and Tradition: The Birth of Bacchus and the Genealogy of Images," in Word & Image 18 (2002): pp. 267-81.
- "Space and Politics: On the Earliest Classical Athenian Gravestones." in Apollo 156 (July, 2002): pp. 20-27.
- "Imitation, Inscription, Antilogic," in Métis: Revue d'anthropologie du monde grec ancien 13 (1998; appeared 2003): pp. 17-33.
- "Framing the Gift: The Politics of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi." in Classical Antiquity 20 (2001): pp. 273-336.
- Reprinted in abridged form as: "Framing the Gift: The Siphnian Treasury at Delphi and the Politics of Architectural Sculpture," in The Cultures within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, eds. C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (Cambridge, 2003): pp. 129-49.
- "Beazley and the Language of Connoisseurship," in Hephaistos 15 (1997): pp. 7-30.
- "The Lion's Eye: Imitation and Uncertainty in Attic Red-Figure," in Representations 51 (1995): pp. 118-53.