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 ''

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'' and ''Le Phare'', the journal of Le Centre culturel suisse. He has also published academic journal articles in ''Journal of Contemporary Painting'', ''

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.'' He is currently a lecturer at

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Early life

Neofetou was born in

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, England on 1 February 1989. He studied at

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and

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, at which he completed a

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entitled ''Eyes in the Heat: The Question Concerning Abstract Expressionism'', initially under the supervision of

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, and subsequently under the supervision of Josephine Berry and

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Career

His first book, a monograph on

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entitled ''Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator'' (2012), was published by

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. In 2018, he curated ''Divine Cargo'', an evening of

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. In 2018, he contributed to �
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. In early 2019, he contributed a short essay to the

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project "Technologically Fabricated Intimacy." His second book, ''Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War'' was published in October 2021 with

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. 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.' As a filmmaker, Neofetou wrote and directed the 2024 short film ''Promulgate'', starring Sophie Cundale, which won the award of Best Low Budget Film in the third period of the 2024

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Indie Movie Awards.

Bibliography

Books

* ''Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War''. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. * ''Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator''. Zero Books, 2012.

Scholarly articles

* 'The Flesh of Negation: Adorno and Merleau-Ponty contra Heidegger,' ''Philosophy & Social Criticism'', January 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537211066852 * 'Greenberg's Marxism: Clement Greenberg's Unfinished Essay Draft on André Breton's "Political Position of Surrealism" (1935),' ''Getty Research Journal'', 2021, 14:, 205–219, https://doi.org/10.1086/716587 * ‘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'', 38:6, pp. 541–558, 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

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