I am an art historian living in Philadelphia. My research seeks to understand  images as a complex psycho-social problem. I am interested neither in reactionary defenses of the integrity of the object (or text) nor postmodern leveling into discursivity. Giving proper due to the image but conceding its understanding as a social act is a critical realist attitude informed, in my case, of gestalt theory.

Maurice Mandelbaum and American Critical Realism (London: Routledge, 2009)

Patronage and Dynasty: The Rise of the Della Rovere in Renaissance Italy (Truman State University Press, 2007)

Arnheim, Gestalt and Art: A Psychological Theory (Vienna: Springer, 2005)