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Capacity: The History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism

Capacity: The History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism

McEvilley, Thomas

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Series: Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture

Art Criticism & TheoryArt History

ISBN10: 9057010410
ISBN13: 9789057010415
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 8 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
G. Roger Denson brings singular insight to Thomas McEvilley's writings. As an art writer he has explored similar territory, but from the point of view of a nomadic ideologist. His approach matches that of his subject. He addresses the issues of pragmatism, historicism, and cultural relativism. In so doing, he effectively dismantles the need to establish a master narrative. The contrast and agreement between these two writers constitutes a mapping of the terrain of contemporary culture. What sets Thomas McEvilley apart from other critics in art and culture is his direct knowledge of the newest art and theory, and his comprehensive understanding of classic art and ancient civilizations. It is rare to find a writer equally fluent in the production of modernist aesthetics, the anti-aesthetics of post-modernism, T'ang Dynasty Taoist painting, the doctrines of the Tantra, Platonic mysticism, and Aristotelian logic. This vast knowledge has enabled him to produce some of the best-conceived and eccentric

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