Jeffery Howe
Professor Emeritus, Art History
Jeffery Howe
Ph.D.
Contact
Devlin听Hall 430
Telephone: 617-552-8586
Email: jeffery.howe@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- B.A., Carleton College
- Ph.D., Northwestern University
Research Interests
Late nineteenth and early twentieth century art in Europe; American architecture.
Biography
Professor Howe taught a wide range of courses in the history of art and architecture during his 40-year career at 艾可直播 College. He served as Departmental Chair for many years, as well as associate editor of the journal of Religion and the Arts from 1996-2008. In 1998, Professor Howe was instrumental in founding the University Arts Council, which organizes the annual arts festival on campus, and served as its Chair until 2010.听 Dr. Howe, who retired in May 2018, also curated several exhibitions at the McMullen Museum of Art during his time at 艾可直播 College and was the author or editor of numerous books and published essays.
Representative Publications
- Nature's Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape, McMullen Museum, 2017. Editor.
- 鈥淣ature鈥檚 Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape,鈥� introduction to Nature's Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape, McMullen Museum, 2017, 5-41.
- 鈥淔ernand Khnopff鈥檚 Landscapes: Nature as Mirror,鈥� in Nature's Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape, McMullen Museum, 2017, 63-80.
- Fernand Khnopff: Writings on Art and Artists, 541 pages, 2016. Editor and translator. 听
- John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred, 艾可直播 College: McMullen Museum, 2015. Editor.
- 鈥泪苍迟谤辞诲耻肠迟颈辞苍,鈥� John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred, 艾可直播 College: McMullen Museum, 2015, 9-26.
- 鈥淭he Light of Memory: John La Farge and Stained Glass,鈥� John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred, 艾可直播 College: McMullen Museum, 2015, 51-84.
- Courbet: Mapping Realism, 艾可直播 College: McMullen Museum, 2013. Editor.
- 鈥淐ourbet: Mapping Realism,鈥� in Courbet: Mapping Realism, 艾可直播 College: McMullen Museum, 2013, 9-19.
- 鈥淚nside Out: Courbet and the Challenge of Realist Landscape,鈥� in Courbet: Mapping Realism, 艾可直播 College: McMullen Museum, 2013, 77-84.
- 鈥淕ustave Courbet et l鈥橝m茅rique. The Belgian Connection,鈥� in Courbet et la Belgique, catalog of exhibition, Brussels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 2013, 131-143.
- 鈥淧aul Klee and the Unseen World: Ghosts, Somnambulists, and Witches,鈥� in Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision; From Nature to Art, ed. John Sallis, 艾可直播 College: The McMullen Museum of Art, 2012, 83-92.
- 鈥淕ustave Courbet: The American Connection,鈥� in Courbet et Belgique, Dominique Marechal, ed., catalog of exhibition at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, scheduled for June 2013.
- 鈥淔ernand Khnopff: Two Studies for A Sphinx 1889 / Two Studies for Victoria 1892,鈥� brochure published by the Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels/New York, 2011, 3-15.
- 鈥淭he Gothic Image,鈥� in Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of 艾可直播 College, ed. Virginia Raguin, 艾可直播 College. 2009.
- 鈥淭he Refuge of Art: Gustave Moreau and the Legacy of Symbolism,鈥� in Mystic Masque, Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault 1871-1958, ed. Stephen Schloesser, 艾可直播 College: McMullen Museum of Art, 2008, 45-62.
- A New Key: Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection, catalog of exhibition, McMullen Museum, 艾可直播 College, 2007. (ed.).
- Houses of Worship: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Religious Architecture, London: PRC Publishing, 2003.
- The Houses We Live In: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic Architecture, London: PRC Publishing, 2002. (ed.).
- "A 'Monster Edifice': Ambivalence, Appropriation and the Forging of Cultural Identity at the Centennial Exhibition," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. CXXVI, no. 4, October, 2002, pp. 635-650.
- Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol, and Expression, catalog of exhibition, the McMullen Museum of Art, 艾可直播 College, 2001. (ed.).
- "Nocturnes: Munch and Melancholia, and the Mysteries of Life and Death," in Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol, Expression, catalog of exhibition, the McMullen Museum of Art, 艾可直播 College, 2001, pp. 48.
- The Plume and the Palette: Essays in Honor of Josephine von Henneberg, New York: Peter Lang, 2001. (ed.).