Daniel Neofetou Explained

Daniel Neofetou
Birth Date:1 February 1989
Birth Place:Leamington Spa, England
Nationality:British
Alma Mater:Goldsmiths, University of London

Daniel Andreas Neofetou (born 1 February 1989) is a British writer, theorist, curator and artist. 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.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He has also published academic journal articles in Journal of Contemporary Painting, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Arts, Getty Research Journal and Philosophy & Social Criticism.[6] [7] [8] [9] He is an associate lecturer at University of Northampton and Birkbeck, and a visiting lecturer at University of Edinburgh.[10]

Early life

Neofetou was born in Leamington Spa, England on 1 February 1989. He studied at University of Warwick, University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London, at which he completed a PhD 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.[11]

Career

His first book, a monograph on David Lynch entitled Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator (2012), was published by Zero Books.[12] [13] [14] In 2018, he curated Divine Cargo, an evening of performance art at South London Gallery.[15] 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 project "Technologically Fabricated Intimacy."[16]

His second book, Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War was published in October 2021 with Bloomsbury Publishing.[17] In a review in Leonardo, 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.'[18]

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Notes and References

  1. Krogh Groth, Sanne; Schulz, Holger. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
  2. Neofetou, Daniel. "Art Investigation". Art Monthly, 17 June 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020
  3. Clark, Tom. "Consistency (or indexicality)" Research.tomclrk.com, 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020
  4. Neofetou, Daniel. "Brief and Wholly Concrete Moments". Mute, 28 October 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2020
  5. Neofetou, Daniel. "Damn Good Coffee: David Lynch Adverts Up There With Twin Peaks?". Complex UK, 8 October 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020
  6. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jcp/2019/00000005/00000001/art00014 A world for us: On the prefiguration of reconciliation in Barnett Newman’s painting
  7. "Laughing and Crying and Dancing: The Limits of Human Behavior in Swing Time (1936)". Taylor & Francis online, 30 January 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020
  8. 10.3390/arts10010001 . free . Political Art Criticism and the Need for Theory . 2020 . Neofetou . Daniel . Arts . 10 . 1 .
  9. Greenberg's Marxism: Clement Greenberg's Unfinished Essay Draft on André Breton's "Political Position of Surrealism" (1935). 10.1086/716587. 2021. Neofetou. Daniel. Getty Research Journal. 14. 205–219. 236916972.
  10. Web site: Dr Daniel Neofetou — University of Northampton .
  11. "Eyes in the Heat: The Question Concerning Abstract Expressionism". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 25 July 2020
  12. "Good Day Today: Synopsis, Reviews". John Hunt Publishing. Retrieved 25 July 2020
  13. Buckland, Warren. "David Lynch swerves: uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire". Taylor & Francis online, 30 January 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020
  14. "Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator". Google Scholar. Retrieved 25 July 2020
  15. "Divine Cargo, Sat 11 AUG 2018, 6PM". South London Gallery, 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2020
  16. "Technologically Fabricated Intimacy". King’s Cultural Community. Retrieved 26 July 2020
  17. "Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War". Google Books. Retrieved 26 July 2020
  18. Web site: Rereading Abstract Expressionism: Clement Greenberg and the Cold War . March 2022 .

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