University of Cincinnati (B.A., Ph.D.) University of Washington (M.A.)
Academic work
Institutions
Rice University School of Visual Arts Yale University School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Main interests
Philology, art criticism, linguistics, history
Notable works
Sculpture in the Age of Doubt
The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
Thomas McEvilley (/məkˈɛvəli/; July 13, 1939 – March 2, 2013) was an American art critic, poet, novelist, and scholar. He was a Distinguished Lecturer in Art History at Rice University[1] and founder and former chair of the Department of Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[2]
^Thomas McEvilley, G. Roger Denson (1996), Capacity: : History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism. Routledge. ISBN 90-5701-051-8: This information is given on the backpage of this book.
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ThomasMcEvilley (/məkˈɛvəli/; July 13, 1939 – March 2, 2013) was an American art critic, poet, novelist, and scholar. He was a Distinguished Lecturer...
were gentle to begin with, offering her a rose or a kiss. Art critic ThomasMcEvilley, who was present, wrote: It began tamely. Someone turned her around...
heart attacks followed, the second of which killed him on 6 June 1962. ThomasMcEvilley, in an essay submitted to Artforum in 1982, classified Klein as an...
Philosophies is a book by the American writer ThomasMcEvilley, published in 2001 by Allworth Press. ThomasMcEvilley traces exchanges between ancient Greek...
Introduction ISBN 0195384962 2009 p93 ThomasMcEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought 2002 pp499-505 McEvilley, Thomas (2002). The Shape of Ancient Thought...
context of the poem has been the subject of much scholarly debate: ThomasMcEvilley calls it the "central controversy" about the poem. Wilamowitz suggested...
Sanskrit texts dealing with pranayama, the manipulation of the breath. ThomasMcEvilley translates prāṇa as "spirit-energy". The breath is understood to be...
of fall 2022, had targeted 2025 for its completion. Art historian ThomasMcEvilley places the work in the lineage of monuments of archaeoastronomy such...
geographical context, which Baines asserts classicists tend not to do. ThomasMcEvilley concluded in 2002 that while Bernal's "analysis of earlier periods...
particularly the surviving works of Sextus Empiricus, According to ThomasMcEvilley this is because Nagarjuna was likely influenced by Greek Pyrrhonist...
or an early Buddha by Buddhists. Historians like Heinrich Zimmer, ThomasMcEvilley are of the opinion that there exists some link between first Jain Tirthankara...
Jainism like Vilas Sangave. Historians such as Heinrich Zimmer and ThomasMcEvilley believe that there is a connection between first Jain Tirthankara Rishabhanatha...
Ancient Thought. Comparative studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies by ThomasMcEvilley (Allworth Press and the School of Visual Arts, 2002) ISBN 1-58115-203-5...
that the śramaṇa movement originated in non-Vedic Greater Magadha. ThomasMcEvilley favors a composite model in which a pre-Aryan yoga prototype existed...
interpret Buddhist ideas through Western philosophy. Scholars such as ThomasMcEvilley, Christopher I. Beckwith, and Adrian Kuzminski have identified cross...
Madhyamaka Buddhism, particularly the surviving works of Sextus Empiricus, ThomasMcEvilley and Matthew Neale suspect that Nāgārjuna was influenced by Greek Pyrrhonist...
experiments that would resolve the issues in question." Lloyd 1973, p25–6. Thomas, McEvilley (2002). The shape of ancient thought : comparative studies in Greek...
Distributed Art Publishers with essays by ThomasMcEvilley, Tracy Baker-White, Roger Cardinal, James Brett, Thomas Crouch, Barbara Safarova and Randall Morris...
On balance the proto-Śiva character of the seal has been accepted." ThomasMcEvilley noted, in line with Marshall, that the central figure was in the yoga...
of the high degree of similarity between madhyamaka and Pyrrhonism, ThomasMcEvilley and Matthew Neale suspect that Nāgārjuna was influenced by Greek Pyrrhonist...
philosophy regarding these matters is The Shape of Ancient Thought by ThomasMcEvilley "Popular psychology, belief in life after death and reincarnation in...
Ancient Thought. Comparative studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies by ThomasMcEvilley (Allworth Press and the School of Visual Arts, 2002) ISBN 1-58115-203-5...
Pyrrhonism, particularly the surviving works of Sextus Empiricus, ThomasMcEvilley and Matthew Neale suspect that Nāgārjuna was influenced by Greek Pyrrhonist...
Ancient Thought. Comparative studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies by ThomasMcEvilley (Allworth Press and the School of Visual Arts, 2002) ISBN 1-58115-203-5...
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