Comments on: Fearless and Philosophical, Subtle and Inquisitive: Thomas McEvilley, 1939-2013 https://artcritical.com/2013/03/03/thomas-mcevilley/ Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:30:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Rey Roney https://artcritical.com/2013/03/03/thomas-mcevilley/#comment-33691 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:30:35 +0000 https://www.artcritical.com/?p=29305#comment-33691 Art has been characterized in terms of mimesis, expression, communication of emotion, or other values. During the Romantic period, art came to be seen as “a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science”.

]]> By: Bruce McPherson https://artcritical.com/2013/03/03/thomas-mcevilley/#comment-32242 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 05:45:36 +0000 https://www.artcritical.com/?p=29305#comment-32242 In reply to surpik angelini.

Thank you for your remarks confirming my belief in Tom’s power to communicate across all boundaries of human expression and creativity.

]]> By: surpik angelini https://artcritical.com/2013/03/03/thomas-mcevilley/#comment-30288 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:36:28 +0000 https://www.artcritical.com/?p=29305#comment-30288 My encounters with Tom McEvilley were marked by synchronicities that touched my life on many levels, some of which were rather magical. The most significant ones revolved around two exhibitions I curated in Houston that resonated and coincided with groundbreaking international exhibitions McEvilley was intellectually invested in, Les Magiciens de la Terre in 1989 and Documenta X in 1997. Both advanced a global, postcolonial, anthropological vision of art, a vision McEviiley pioneered through a signature course he taught at Rice University titled Art and the Mind. Having McEvilley’s support and mentorship was a grounding experience in my formative years as an artist, and cultural researcher, One life will not be long enough to honor the legacy of his erudition and the significance of the art he championed throughout the world. McEvilley’s knowledge was boundless. His explorations took us far beyond our own imagination. He freed both creators and art audiences from the shakles of social conventions, prejudice, repression, oppression, injustice…he did this using the power of his own convictions and an unswerving belief that in the end, ethics always trancends aesthetics.

]]> By: Paul C Smith https://artcritical.com/2013/03/03/thomas-mcevilley/#comment-29980 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:26:01 +0000 https://www.artcritical.com/?p=29305#comment-29980 Around 1990, when little attention in NY was given to contemporary India artists, McEvilley wrote about a new generation of figurative painting there centered on the Baroda School. His multi-culturalism wasn’t just theoretical, it was in depth and eye-opening.

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