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Slought Foundation, an organization rethinking contemporary arts, presents “Wiliam Anastasi's Pataphysical Society,” a symposium on Saturday, December 11, 2004 critically engaging William Anastasi's work in relation to literary and artistic predecessors and contemporaries including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage. This one-day symposium, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, features presentations by and conversations with a variety of noted critics and academics including Thomas McEvilley, Steve McCaffery, Joseph Masheck, William Anastasi, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Alison Armstrong, and Ian Hays. For documentation and audio recordings from past Slought Foundation projects with William Anastasi, visit: http://slought.org/search/anastasi/
Thomas McEvilley is Distinguished Lecturer in Art History at Rice University, where he has been on the faculty since 1969. He holds a Ph.D. in classical philology. In addition to Greek and Latin, he has studied Sanskrit and has taught numerous courses in Greek and Indian culture, history of religion and philosophy, and art. He has published countless scholarly monographs and articles in various journals on early Greek poetry, philosophy, and religion as well as on contemporary art and culture. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant in 1993 and has been awarded an NEA critic’s grant and the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism by the College Art Association. He lives in New York City.
McEvilley has been a contributing editor of Artforum and has published hundreds of articles, catalogue essays, and reviews in the field of contemporary art, as well as monographs on Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, and Pat Steir. His recent books include Art and Discontent, Art and Otherness, and The Exile's Return: Toward a Redefinition of Painting for the Post-Modern Era.
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