Daniel Neofetou
Daniel Neofetou (born 1 February 1989) is a British writer. He is the author of the books Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator (2012) and the forthcoming Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War (2021). He is a regular contributor to The Wire and Art Monthly, 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 and Arts.[6][7][8] He is an associate lecturer at Birkbeck.[9]
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Born | Leamington Spa, England | 1 February 1989
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London |
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.[10]
Career
His first book, a monograph on David Lynch entitled Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator (2012), was published by Zero Books.[11][12][13] In 2018, he curated Divine Cargo, an evening of performance art at South London Gallery.[14] 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."[15]
His second book, Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War, is forthcoming in May 2021 with Bloomsbury Publishing.[16]
Bibliography
Books
Articles
- ‘Political Art Criticism and the Need for Theory,’ Arts, 2021, 10(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts10010001
- ‘Laughing and Crying and Dancing: The Limits of Human Behaviour in Swing Time’, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2020.1780901
- ‘A world for us: On the prefiguration of reconciliation in Barnett Newman’s painting,’ Journal of Contemporary Painting, 2019, 5:1, pp. 147–61, https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp.5.1.147_1
References
- Krogh Groth, Sanne; Schulz, Holger. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. ISBN 978-1-5013-3881-6
- Neofetou, Daniel. "Art Investigation". Art Monthly, 17 June 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020
- Clark, Tom. "Consistency (or indexicality)" Research.tomclrk.com, 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020
- Neofetou, Daniel. "Brief and Wholly Concrete Moments". Mute, 28 October 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2020
- Neofetou, Daniel. "Damn Good Coffee: David Lynch Adverts Up There With Twin Peaks?". Complex UK, 8 October 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020
- A world for us: On the prefiguration of reconciliation in Barnett Newman’s painting. Ingenta Connect. Retrieved 25 July 2020
- "Laughing and Crying and Dancing: The Limits of Human Behavior in Swing Time (1936)". Taylor & Francis online, 30 January 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020
- https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/10/1/1/htm
- http://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/9245003/daniel-neofetou
- "Eyes in the Heat: The Question Concerning Abstract Expressionism". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 25 July 2020
- "Good Day Today: Synopsis, Reviews". John Hunt Publishing. Retrieved 25 July 2020
- Buckland, Warren. "David Lynch swerves: uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire". Taylor & Francis online, 30 January 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020
- "Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator". Google Scholar. Retrieved 25 July 2020
- "Divine Cargo, Sat 11 AUG 2018, 6PM". South London Gallery, 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2020
- "Technologically Fabricated Intimacy". King’s Cultural Community. Retrieved 26 July 2020
- "Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War". Google Books. Retrieved 26 July 2020