Neil Levine (art historian)

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  • Modern Architecture: Representation and Reality, 2010 ISBN   9780300145670
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    Neil Levine
    Born
    Neil Arthur Levine

    1941 (age 8081)
    Occupation Art historian
    Educator
    Awards Slade Professor of Fine Art (1994-1995)
    Guggenheim Fellowship (2003)
    Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
    Academic background
    Alma mater Princeton University
    Yale University
    Thesis Architectural Reasoning in the Age of Positivism: The Neo-Grec Idea of Henri Labrouste's Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve  (1975)
    Doctoral advisor Vincent Scully
    Influences Donald Drew Egbert
    Robert Rosenblum