Christopher Petty Heuer specializes in early modern European art, with an emphasis upon Northern painting, architecture, and print culture. Heuer’s writing has appeared in Word and Image, Res, Artforum, October, Print Quarterly, The Burlington Magazine, Renaissance Quarterly, and elsewhere, and his first book,The City Rehearsed (New York and London, 2009) won support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He is currently working on the Dutch reception of Byzantine icons; a translation of an Alois Riegl essay on Jacob van Ruisdael (1902), a book on movement and replication in the Renaissance, and essays dealing with Hercules Segers, architectural ornament, and the Renaissance arctic. In Fall of 2011 he and a group of collaborators curated Vision and Communism at the University of Chicago, and authored an accompanying book. Before coming to Princeton, Heuer taught at Columbia, Berkeley and the University of Washington, Seattle. He has held Getty, Kress, Humboldt, and Clark Fellowships, and in Fall 2009 he was Gerda Henkel Stiftung Fellow at the Humboldt Universität Berlin. Since 2010 Heuer has held Princeton University's Class of 1931 Bicentennial Preceptorship. He is currently Northern European book review editor for caa.reviews, and a continuing participant inOur Literal Speed.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

“Delirious New Amsterdam” in P. Lombaerde (ed.) New Urbanism and the Grid (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), in press.

“Raumbild’s Aporia,” in Alexander Nagel and Lorenzo Pericolo (eds.), Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2010), pp. 141-158.

“Hieronymus Cock’s Aesthetic of Collapse” Oxford Art Journal 32:3 (2009), pp. 387-408.

Response to Questionnaire on “The Contemporary” (With Matthew Jesse Jackson and Andrew Perchuk) October 130, pp. 84-7.

The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries (New York and London, 2009).

“Difference, Repetition, and Utopia: European Print’s New Worlds” in Crossing Cultures: Proceedings of the 31st International Congress of the History of Art, Melbourne, 13-18 January 2008 (Melbourne UP, 2009), pp. 244-250.

“The Perpetual Mécanicien: Isaac de Caus as Author” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 29:3 (2009), pp. 192-199.

(with Matthew Jesse Jackson) “Slow Difficulty: An Exchange with Charles Harrison,” InterReview 8 (Spring 2008), pp 3-12.

“Drawing Influence,” Biuletyn Historii Sztuki 69:2 (Fall 2007).

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Vision and Communism (with R. Bird, M. Jackson, T. Mosaka, S. Smith) (New York: New Press 2011).

“Raum” in: Stefan Jordan and Jürgen Müller, eds. Lexikon Kunstwissenschaft: Hundert Grundbegriffe (Ditzingen: Verlag Philipp Reclam (June 2011) in press.

“Dürer’s Folds” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2011), pp. 249-265.

"Entropic Segers" Art History (Summer 2012), forthcoming.

Translation and commentary of Alois Riegl, "Jakob van Ruisdael" (1902), Art in Translation (Summer 2012).