About the Author:
Thomas McEvilley received a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati and taught at Rice University from 1969 to 2005. He has written hundreds of articles, catalogue essays, and reviews in the field of contemporary art, as well as important monographs on Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, Anish Kapoor, among others. A contributing editor to Artforum since 1982, he has also served as editor-in-chief of Contemoranea. Author of three published novels, most recently the controversial North of Yesterday (also with McPherson & Company), he has published a book of poems and made various contributions to literary magazines. In addition to a fourth novel in progress, Dr. McEvilley recently published The Shape of Ancient Thought: A Comparative Study of Greek and Indian Philosophies, and The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism.
Review:
McEvilley is opting for a new metaphysics in which content rises above the banality of empty eilitism. -- MEANING
This is not a collection of past articles but a carefully assembled volume... In the last essay, “Father the Void,” McEvilley offers what could well become a credo for '90s art criticism: “The critic will come to see art as culture and culture as anthropology. Anthropology in turn will increasingly become a means of critiquing one's own inherited cultural stances rather than firing value judgments in all directions.” --Arts
Each of the six essays offered here... represents the author's ambitious attempt to demonstrate that contemporary criticism maintains a place in the continuum of the history of ideas.--Journal of Art
Illuminating and insightful rather than analytic and argumentative. --Small Press Book Review
The sort of wide-angle view of contemporary art that can help bring some of the barking and bickering [about post-Modernism] into perspective.-- New York Press
A thoroughly useful lantern in the bramble, a clear call for attention to meaning in art. --Cover
Each of the six essays offered here... represents the author's ambitious attempt to demonstrate that contemporary criticism maintains a place in the continuum of the history of ideas.--Journal of Art
Illuminating and insightful rather than analytic and argumentative. --Small Press Book Review
The sort of wide-angle view of contemporary art that can help bring some of the barking and bickering [about post-Modernism] into perspective.-- New York Press
A thoroughly useful lantern in the bramble, a clear call for attention to meaning in art. --Cover
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