Robert Michael Neuman is a professor of art history

Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

 at Florida State University

Florida State University

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 where he specializes in early modern European art, with an emphasis on social and religious history, gender studies, and the intersection of high art and popular culture. His scholarship encompasses all media - painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

, sculpture

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

, architecture

Architecture

Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

, prints

Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...

, decorative arts

Decorative art

The decorative arts is traditionally a term for the design and manufacture of functional objects. It includes interior design, but not usually architecture. The decorative arts are often categorized in opposition to the "fine arts", namely, painting, drawing, photography, and large-scale...

, and costume

Costume

The term costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances...

.

His 1994 book, Robert de Cotte and the Perfection of Architecture in Eighteenth-Century France, is the first comprehensive examination of the French royal architect, Robert de Cotte

Robert de Cotte

Robert de Cotte was a French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France from 1699, the earliest notes presaging the Rococo style were introduced. First a pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, he later became his brother-in-law and his collaborator...

, during a period when Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 became the center of courtly fashion. He also regularly serves on doctoral dissertation committees.

Biography

Dr. Neuman holds a PhD

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 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and was formerly a book review editor for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). He was the 1986-87 recipient of the Florida State University Teaching Award, the 1994 Millard Meiss Publication Fund, as well as various other teaching awards.

Current Projects

He is currently working as principal investigator for a project with the Florida Center for Advising & Academic Support (FCAAS) as well as researching the role of American movies in shaping perceptions of historic architecture.

Selected Publications

• "Illusions of Grandeur: A Harmonious Garden for the Sun King." In Gardening Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom, edited by Dan O'Brien, 163-77. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2010.
• "Main Street, USA." In Disneyland and Culture: Essays on the Parks and Their Influence, edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.
• "Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A., and Its Sources in Hollywood, U.S.A." Journal of American Culture 31 (2008); 83-97.
• "Now Mickey Mouse Enters Art's Temple: Walt Disney at the Intersection of Art and Entertainment." Visual Resources 14.3 (1999): 249-61.
• Biographical entries, Oxford Art Online (Dictionary of Art., Ed. Jane Turner. 36 vols. New York: Grove: 1996).
• Robert de Cotte and the Perfection of Architecture in Eighteenth-Century France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
• "Projects for the Church of Saint-Louis de Versailles in the Parc-aux-Cerfs." Eighteenth-Century Life 17 (1993): 182-93.
• "Watteau's L'enseigne de Gersaint and Baroque Emblematic Tradition." Gazette des Beaux-Arts
  Gazette des Beaux-Arts
  The Gazette des Beaux-Arts was a French art review, found in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. It was a world reference work on art history for nearly 100 years - one other editor in chief, from 1955 to 1987, was Jean Adhémar...
  
  104 (1984): 153-64.