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Book SynopsisDaniel Neofetou completed his PhD at Goldsmiths in 2018. He has taught at Birkbeck, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, and the Fordham University London Center. He is the author of
Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator (2015) and is a regular contributor to
Art Monthly and
The Wire.Trade ReviewIn relating Greenberg’s post-‘Kitsch’ and ‘Laocoon’ writing to Adorno, Neofetou brilliantly grounds the thesis that Abstract Expressionism’s determinate negation of content-based (that is, what Adorno calls
Inhalt) thinking portends the determinate negation of unfreedom. The book will well service readers already familiar with some of the revisionist literature on Abstract Expressionism and best reward specialists familiar with the more recent responses to these revisionist accounts. * Oxford Art Journal *
The scope and ambitions of
Rereading Abstract Expressionism is very different, but also very clear and powerful ...
Rereading Abstract Expressionism is an important contribution to the study of abstract expressionism and its one-sided reception in post-Greenbergian years. It is now time to go back to the paintings themselves and to check the validity of his very stimulating new interpretations of the discourses that have “made” abstract expressionism what it was and today no longer is, namely the promise of an absolute and absolutely liberating art. * Leonardo Reviews *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Greenberg’s Trotskyism 2. Figuring Negation 3. Making Things of Which We Know Not What They Are 4. Greenberg’s Kantianism contra Greenberg’s Positivism 5. The Silent World of the Sensible 6. Denunciation and Anticipation Epilogue Bibliography Index
