Richard Neer

Richard Neer is William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, Cinema & Media Studies and the College at the University of Chicago. He is Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry and founding director of the Chicago Center for Global Ancient Art. He works at the intersection of aesthetics, archaeology and history, with particular emphasis on the role of phenomenology and theories of style in multiple fields: Classical Greek sculpture, seventeenth-century French painting, and narrative cinema. His most recent books are The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Art and Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, 2500–100 BCE (Thames & Hudson, 2012). Recent and current projects include: a book on things, buildings and landscapes in Pindar (co-authored with Leslie Kurke); a book on questions of evidence, criteria and judgment in cinema (co-authored with Daniel Morgan); a book on the history of connoisseurship (University of Chicago Press); a series of edited volumes related to the Chicago Center for Global Ancient Art; and studies of the sculpture of Charles Ray, paintings by Nicolas Poussin and Laurent de La Hyre, and ancient concepts of wonder and grace.