Seymour Howard

 

Appointed 1958, Program in Art History

Ph.D., University of Chicago

 

Research interests

Classical art and its afterlife; restoratrion and fabrication of ancient sculpture; major issues of forms, dynamics and meanings in art history, theory, criticism, psychology and perception.

 

Publications

Circa 300 in total--the majority in professional journals and about 100 as books and other separate printings of catalogues and monographs, dealing with ancient to contemporary art in various media in Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern painting, architecture, sculpture, art theory, criticism and collecting, as well as more particular subjects and topics such as Lysippos, Polykleitos, Pergamene collecting and site planning, Laocoon restorations, Michelangelo, Carracci, Bernini, Cavaceppi, Winckelmann, J.L. David, Blake, Merz, Manet, Duchamp, and California Beat artists and galleries. Selected bibliographies of my publications appear in the collections of my essays Antiquity Restored (Vienna, 1990) and Art and Imago (London, 1997).

 

Lectures

About 120 lectures at international, national, and sectional archeological and art historical congresses and museums, including the Louvre, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Hermitage, the National Gallery, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, as well as major universities in the United States and abroad.

 

Artwork

Paintings, posters, and sculpture in various media exhibited nationally and internationally since 1952.

 

 

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