“expansive ways of looking”

Thomas McEvilley, Critic and Defender of Non-Western Art, Dies at 73

If some of us have learned anything since 1984, it’s how to value indigenous arts. Thank you, Thomas McEvilley.

…Mr. McEvilley was a crucial alternative voice. He demonstrated that abstraction was not a European invention, pointing to non-Western abstract art from Hindu Tantric painting to African masks to Islamic tile work. He was among the first widely read critics of his generation to write about contemporary non-Western art at a time when it was all but unknown to the Western market.”