Daniel Andreas Neofetou (born 1 February 1989) is a British writer and theorist. He is the author of the books ''Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator'' (2012) and ''Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War'' (2021). He is a regular contributor to ''
The Wire'', ''
Art Monthly'' and ''
Artforum'', and has written for ''
Mute'', ''
Complex'', ''
Flash Art'' and ''Le Phare'', the journal of
Le Centre culturel suisse. He has also published academic journal articles in ''Journal of Contemporary Painting'', ''
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
The ''Quarterly Review of Film and Video'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering moving image studies, considered to be among the best-known journals in this field. It is published by Routledge. From 1999 to 2014, Wheeler Winston Dixon and ...
'', ''
Arts'', ''
Getty Research Journal'' and ''
Philosophy & Social Criticism.'' He is an associate lecturer at
University of Northampton and
Birkbeck, and a visiting lecturer at
University of Edinburgh.'
Early life
Neofetou was born in
Leamington Spa
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington (), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following ...
, England on 1 February 1989. He studied at
University of Warwick,
University of Edinburgh and
Goldsmiths, University of London, at which he completed a
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* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
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entitled ''Eyes in the Heat: The Question Concerning Abstract Expressionism'', initially under the supervision of
Mark Fisher, and subsequently under the supervision of Josephine Berry and
Marina Vishmidt
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.
Career
His first book, a monograph on
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist and actor. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the César Award for Be ...
entitled ''Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator'' (2012), was published by
Zero Books. In 2018, he curated ''Divine Cargo'', an evening of
performance art at
South London Gallery. In 2018, he contributed to
The Annotated Reader, a publication and exhibition curated by
Ryan Gander. In early 2019, he contributed a short essay to the
King's College London
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project "Technologically Fabricated Intimacy."
His second book, ''Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War'' was published in October 2021 with
Bloomsbury Publishing
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. In a review in
Leonardo
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, Jan Baetens writes that it is 'an important contribution to the study of abstract expressionism' which provides 'very stimulating new interpretations of the discourses that have “made” abstract expressionism what it was.'
Bibliography
Books
* ''Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War''. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.
* ''Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator''. Zero Books, 2012.
Scholarly articles
* 'The Flesh of Negation: Adorno and Merleau-Ponty contra Heidegger,' ''Philosophy & Social Criticism'', January 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537211066852
* 'Greenberg's Marxism: Clement Greenberg's Unfinished Essay Draft on André Breton's "Political Position of Surrealism" (1935),' ''Getty Research Journal'', 2021, 14:, 205–219, https://doi.org/10.1086/716587
* ‘Political Art Criticism and the Need for Theory,’ ''Arts'', 2021, 10(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts10010001
* ‘Laughing and Crying and Dancing: The Limits of Human Behaviour in Swing Time’, ''Quarterly Review of Film and Video'', 38:6, pp. 541–558, https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2020.1780901
* ‘A world for us: On the prefiguration of reconciliation in Barnett Newman’s painting,’ ''Journal of Contemporary Painting'', 2019, 5:1, pp. 147–61, https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp.5.1.147_1
References
External links
Daniel Neofetouat ''
The Wire''
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1989 births
Living people
The Wire (magazine) writers
People from Leamington Spa