Thomas McEvilley (; July 13, 1939 – March 2, 2013) was an American
art critic
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, poet, novelist, and scholar. He was a Distinguished Lecturer in
Art History
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at
Rice University
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[Thomas McEvilley, ]G. Roger Denson G. Roger Denson (born 1956) is an American journalist, cultural and art critic, theoretician, novelist, and curator. He is a regular contributor to ''The Huffington Post'', his writings have also appeared in such international publications as '' Ar ...
(1996), ''Capacity: : History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism''. Routledge. : This information is given on the backpage of this book. and founder and former chair of the Department of Art Criticism and Writing at the
School of Visual Arts
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History
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in
New York City
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.
Biography
McEvilley was born in
Cincinnati
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. He studied
Greek
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,
Latin
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,
Sanskrit
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, and
classical philosophy
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Overview
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in the
classics
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programs of the
University of Cincinnati
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where he received a
B.A.
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, and the
University of Washington
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, where he received an
M.A.
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He then returned to Cincinnati, where he received a
Ph.D.
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in
classical philology
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. He also retained a strong interest in
modern art
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, reinforced by the artists of his acquaintance.
In 1969, McEvilley joined the faculty of
Rice University
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, where he spent the better part of his teaching career.
[Thomas McEvilley (2004)]
"Art and Cognition."
Slought Foundation Online Content. 11 December 2004, retrieved 4 April 2008 He was a visiting professor at
Yale University
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and the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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, among others. He taught numerous courses in
Greek
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
and
Indian culture
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,
history of religion
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and
philosophy
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. In 2008 he retired from teaching after 41 years, residing in
New York City
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and in
upstate New York
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in the
Catskills
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.
He received numerous awards, including the Semple Prize at the University of Cincinnati, a
National Endowment for the Arts
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Critics grant, a
Fulbright fellowship
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in 1993, an NEA critic’s grant, and the
Frank Jewett Mather
Frank Jewett Mather Jr. (6 July 1868 – 11 November 1953) was an American art critic and professor. He was the first "modernist" (i.e., post-classicist) professor at the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. He was a direct desc ...
Award (1993) for Distinction in Art Criticism from the
College Art Association
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.
McEvilley was a contributing editor of ''
Artforum
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'' and editor in chief of ''Contemporanea''.
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, Retrieved 4 April 2008.
McEvilley died on March 2, 2013 of complications from
cancer
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at
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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. He was 73. He is survived by his wife, the artist Joyce Burstein; two sons from a former marriage, Thomas and Monte; a sister, Ellen M. Griffin; and two grandchildren. His son Alexander predeceased him. He was married twice earlier; both marriages ended in divorce.
Work
McEvilley was an expert in the fields of
Greek
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Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
and
India
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n culture, history of religion and philosophy, and art. He published several books and hundreds of scholarly monographs, articles, catalog essays, and reviews on early Greek and Indian poetry, philosophy, and religion as well as on contemporary art and culture.
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''Art and Otherness''
In his 1992 book ''Art and Otherness: Crisis in Cultural Identity'', McEvilley collected and revised twelve essays from the 1980s in the midst of the
Culture Wars
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, the roiling debate regarding the predominance of white, male, Western culture in academia and visual art, and the need for that supremacy to be challenged and opened up to other points of view. McEvilley did this in pointed fashion in "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief," his influential jeremiad against the underlying assumptions that framed the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
's 1984 exhibition ''Primitivism and Twentieth Century Art''.
''Toward a Redefinition of Painting for the Post-Modern Era''
In his 1993 book ''The Exile’s Return: Toward a Redefinition of Painting for the Post-Modern Era'', McEvilley made an important contribution to the late twentieth century "death of painting" debate. He noted that after two decades of decline in importance as a medium, painting revived around 1980. In its return from exile, painting assumed a new theoretical basis in
postmodern
Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the " grand narratives" of moderni ...
cultural theory, together with a new kind of self-awareness and interest in its own limitations.
''Heads It's Form, Tails It's Not Content''
In the article "Heads it's Form, Tails it's not Content" McEvilley describes a theoretical framework for the formalist project presented by postwar critics such as
Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg () (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formal ...
,
Michael Fried
Michael Martin Fried (born April 12, 1939 in New York City) is a modernist art critic and art historian. He studied at Princeton University and Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford. He is the J.R. Herbert Boone Pr ...
. He argued that formalist ideas are rooted in
Neoplatonism
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and as such deal with the problem of content by claiming that content is embedded within form.
Formalism
Formalism may refer to:
* Form (disambiguation)
* Formal (disambiguation)
* Legal formalism, legal positivist view that the substantive justice of a law is a question for the legislature rather than the judiciary
* Formalism (linguistics)
* Scient ...
is based on a
linguistic
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model that
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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argued is given content through the unconscious. In adopting a formalist approach, a critic cannot ignore the content that accompanies every deployment of form.
''Sculpture in the Age of Doubt''
In the book ''Sculpture in the Age of Doubt'' (1999), McEvilley analyzes the intellectual issues surrounding the
postmodern movement
Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the " grand narratives" of moderni ...
in the course of 20th-century sculpture.
''The Shape of Ancient Thought''
In ''The Shape of Ancient Thought'', McEvilley explores the foundations of
Western civilization
Leonardo da Vinci's ''Vitruvian Man''. Based on the correlations of ideal Body proportions">human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise ''De architectura''.
image:Plato Pio-Cle ...
. He argues that today's
Western world
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Western philosophy
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and
Eastern philosophies
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. He shows how
trade
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An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...
,
imperialism
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and currents of
migration
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* Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another
** International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum le ...
allowed cultural philosophies to intermingle freely throughout
India
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,
Egypt
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,
Greece
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and the ancient
Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...
. This book spans thirty years of McEvilley's research, from 1970 to 2000.
See also
This section gives an overview of topics on which McEvilley has written.
; Art:
*
Art of the Indo-Greeks
*
François Morellet
François Morellet (30 April 1926 – 10 May 2016) was a French contemporary abstract painter, sculptor, and light artist. His early work prefigured minimal art and conceptual art and he played a prominent role in the development of geometrical a ...
*
Jean Pigozzi
Jean "Johnny" Pigozzi (born 1952), heir to the CEO of the automobile brand Simca, is an art collector, photographer, fashion designer and . He lives in Geneva.
Biography
Pigozzi is a "French-born Italian". He was born in Paris in 1952 and is ...
*
Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audienc ...
*
Late Modernism
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*
Postmodern art
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*
Yves Klein
Yves Klein (; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein w ...
* ''
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;Greek history and philosophy:
*
Indo-Greek Kingdom
The Indo-Greek Kingdom, or Graeco-Indian Kingdom, also known historically as the Yavana Kingdom (Yavanarajya), was a Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom covering various parts of Afghanistan and the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent ( ...
*
Legacy of the Indo-Greeks
*
Plato of Bactria
Diodotus III Plato (Greek: ; ''Platon'' "broad-shouldered") was a Greco-Bactrian king, also known simply by the regnal name Diodotus III, who for a short time ruled in southern Bactria during the mid 2nd century BCE. The style of Plato's coins s ...
*
Pyrrhonism
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History
Pyrrho of E ...
*
Similarities between Pyrrhonism and Buddhism
According to Edward Conze, Greek Skepticism (particularly that of Pyrrho) can be compared to Buddhist philosophy, especially the Indian Madhyamika school.Conze, EdwardBuddhist Philosophy and Its European Parallels Philosophy East and West 13, p.9- ...
;Indian philosophy:
*
Anekantavada
( hi, अनेकान्तवाद, "many-sidedness") is the Jain doctrine about metaphysical truths that emerged in ancient India. It states that the ultimate truth and reality is complex and has multiple aspects.
According to Jainism, ...
*
Azilises
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Name
Azes's name is attested on his coins in the Greek form () and the Kharosthi form (), which are both derived ...
*
Greco-Buddhism
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*
Paulisa Siddhanta
The Pauliṣa Siddhānta (literally, "The scientific-treatise of Pauliṣa Muni") refers to multiple Indian astronomical treatises, at least one of which is based on a Western source. "'' Siddhānta''" literally means "doctrine" or "tradition".
It ...
*
Pranayama
Pranayama is the yogic practice of focusing on breath. In Sanskrit, '' prana'' means "vital life force", and ''yama'' means to gain control. In yoga, breath is associated with ''prana'', thus, pranayama is a means to elevate the '' prana'' ''sha ...
*
Rishabha (Jain tirthankar)
Rishabhanatha, also ( sa, ऋषभदेव), Rishabhadeva, or Ikshvaku is the first (Supreme preacher) of Jainism and establisher of Ikshvaku dynasty. He was the first of twenty-four teachers in the present half-cycle of time in Jain c ...
*
Romaka Siddhanta
The ''Romaka Siddhanta'' (), literally "The Doctrine of the Romans", is one of the five siddhantas mentioned in Varahamihira's ''Panchasiddhantika'' which is an Indian astronomical treatise.
Content
It is the only one of all Indian astronomical ...
*
Spalahores
Spalahores, also spelled Spalohres or Spalahora, (Greek: ; , (epigraphic); Kharosthi: , ; ruled circa 57-35 BCE), was an Iranian king who ruled Sakastan in the 1st-century BC.
Name
Spalahores's name is attested on his coins in the Greek form ...
*
Spalirises
Spalirisos, also spelled Spalirises, (Greek: , (epigraphic); Kharosthi: , ) was an Iranian king who ruled Arachosia in the 1st century BCE.
Name
Spalarisos's name is attested on his coins in the Greek form () and in the Kharosthi form (), w ...
*
Theodorus (meridarch)
Theodorus ( el, Θεόδωρος) was a "meridarch" (Civil Governor of a province) in the Swat province of the Indo-Greek kingdom in the northern Indian subcontinent, probably sometime between 100 BCE and the end of Greek rule in Gandhara in 55 BC ...
*
Zeionises
Zeionises (Greek: , (epigraphic); Kharosthi: , , , ;) was an Indo-Scythian satrap.
Name
Zeionises's name appears on his coins in the Greek form () and the Kharosthi form (), and on a silver vase from Taxila in the Kharosthi form (), whic ...
Selected publications
;Books
* 1964, ''Party Going'' (First Novel)
* 1987, ''North of Yesterday (a Menippean Satire)''
* 1991, ''Art and Discontent''
* 1992, ''Art and Otherness''
* 1993, ''Fusion: West African Artists at the Venice Biennale''
* 1993, ''The Exile’s Return: Toward a Redefinition of Painting for the Post-Modern Era''
* 1994, ''Der Erste Akt''
* 1996, Capacity: History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism (with G. Roger Denson)
* 1999, ''Sculpture in the Age of Doubt''
* 2002, ''The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies''
* 2007, ''The Triumph of Anti-Art''
* 2008, ''Sappho''
* 2010, ''Art, Love, Friendship: Marina Abramović and Ulay, Together & Apart''
* 2010, ''Yves the Provocateur: Yves Klein and Twentieth-Century Art''
* 2013, ''Charles Dellschau's Aporetic Archive''
* 2014, The Arimaspia (Novel, a Menippean Satire)
;Essays
* Heads It’s Form, Tails It’s Not Content; Artforum November 1982
* On the Manner of Addressing Clouds; Artforum Summer 1984
* The Monochrome Icon
* I Am” Is a Vain Thought
* Art History or Sacred History?
* Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief:‘Primitivism In Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art; Artforum November 1984.
* The Selfhood of the Other
* Another Alphabet: The Work of Marcel Broodthaers
* History, Quality, Globalism
* Penelope’s Night Work: Negative Thinking in Greek Philosophy
* Arrivederci, Venice: The Third World Biennials; Artforum November 1993
* The Tomb of the Zombie
* Paul McCarthy: Performance and Video Works: the Layering (2008)
* Here Comes Everybody
Beyond the Pale, Art and Artists at the Edge of Consensus, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 1994
Africus: Johannesburg Biennale, exhib. cat., Transnational Metropolitan Council, 1995
issue 4/5, 1995, of the magazine neue bildende kunst
Ekbatana exhib. cat., Images of the World, Nikolaj Exhibition Space. Copenhagen, 2000
* James Lee Byars and the Atmosphere of Question; Artforum Summer 1981
* Charles Dellschau: A Higher Vision Is A Basic Demand Of Poetry.
;Monographs
Thomas McEvilley wrote monographs on
Yves Klein
Yves Klein (; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein w ...
(1982),
Pat Steir
Pat Steir (born 1940) is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she s ...
,
Leon Golub
Leon Golub (January 23, 1922 – August 8, 2004) was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his Bachelor of Arts, BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, and his Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA and Ma ...
(1993),
Jannis Kounellis
Jannis Kounellis ( el, Γιάννης Κουνέλλης; 23 March 1936 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek Italian artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.
Life and work
K ...
(1986),
James Croak
James Croak (born 1951) is a visual artist known for his work in conceptual figuration and sculpture.
Early years
James Croak was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1951. His mother died at the age of two. At the age of 15 he was a recognized musical ...
(1999),
Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the nat ...
,
Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan hav ...
,
Dove Bradshaw (2004), Bert Long (2016).
;Poetry
* 44 Four Line Poems (1982)
* 17 Ancient Poems (2013)
References
External links
Authors Page, McPherson & Co.
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Thomas McEvilley. "Art and Cognition." Slought Foundation Online Content. 11 December 2004.
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