{{Short description|British writer (born 1989)}} {{Use British English|date=July 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Daniel Neofetou | image = File:Danielneofetou.jpg | alt = Daniel Neofetou, May 2016 | caption = Daniel Neofetou, May 2016 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1989|2|01|df=yes}} | birth_place = Leamington Spa, England | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | alma_mater = Goldsmiths, University of London }}
'''Daniel Andreas Neofetou''' (born 1 February 1989) is a British theorist and filmmaker. 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 ''The Wire'', ''Art Monthly'' and ''Artforum'', and has written for ''Mute'', ''Complex'', ''Flash Art'' and ''Le Phare'', the journal of Le Centre culturel suisse.<ref>Krogh Groth, Sanne; Schulz, Holger. ''The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art''. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. {{isbn|978-1-5013-3881-6}}</ref><ref>Neofetou, Daniel. "[https://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/article/art-investigation-by-daniel-neofetou-june-2018 Art Investigation]". ''Art Monthly'', 17 June 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020</ref><ref>Clark, Tom. "[https://research.tomclrk.com/consistency-or-indexicality: Consistency (or indexicality)]" Research.tomclrk.com, 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020</ref><ref>Neofetou, Daniel. "[https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/brief-and-wholly-concrete-moments Brief and Wholly Concrete Moments]". ''Mute'', 28 October 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2020</ref><ref>Neofetou, Daniel. "[https://www.complex.com/author/daniel-neofetou Damn Good Coffee: David Lynch Adverts Up There With Twin Peaks?]". Complex UK, 8 October 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020</ref> He has also published academic journal articles in ''Journal of Contemporary Painting'', ''Quarterly Review of Film and Video'', ''Arts'', ''Getty Research Journal'' and ''Philosophy & Social Criticism.<ref>[https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jcp/2019/00000005/00000001/art00014 A world for us: On the prefiguration of reconciliation in Barnett Newman’s painting]. Ingenta Connect. Retrieved 25 July 2020</ref><ref>"[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509208.2020.1780901 Laughing and Crying and Dancing: The Limits of Human Behavior in Swing Time (1936)]". Taylor & Francis online, 30 January 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020</ref><ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.3390/arts10010001 | doi-access=free | title=Political Art Criticism and the Need for Theory | year=2020 | last1=Neofetou | first1=Daniel | journal=Arts | volume=10 | page=1 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/716587|doi = 10.1086/716587|title = Greenberg's Marxism: Clement Greenberg's Unfinished Essay Draft on André Breton's "Political Position of Surrealism" (1935)|year = 2021|last1 = Neofetou|first1 = Daniel|journal = Getty Research Journal|volume = 14|pages = 205–219|s2cid = 236916972|url-access = subscription}}</ref>'' He is currently a lecturer at Middlesex University.''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/dr-daniel-neofetou/| title=Dr Daniel Neofetou | Middlesex University}}</ref>''
==Early life== Neofetou was born in Leamington Spa, England on 1 February 1989. He studied at University of Warwick, University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London, at which he completed a PhD entitled ''Eyes in the Heat: The Question Concerning Abstract Expressionism'', initially under the supervision of Mark Fisher, and subsequently under the supervision of Josephine Berry and Marina Vishmidt.<ref>"[http://research.gold.ac.uk/23677/ Eyes in the Heat: The Question Concerning Abstract Expressionism]". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 25 July 2020</ref>
==Career== His first book, a monograph on David Lynch entitled ''Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator'' (2012), was published by Zero Books.<ref>"[https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/good-day-today Good Day Today: Synopsis, Reviews]". John Hunt Publishing. Retrieved 25 July 2020</ref><ref>Buckland, Warren. "[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17400309.2013.878126 David Lynch swerves: uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire]". Taylor & Francis online, 30 January 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020</ref><ref>"[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=17133519513879841933&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator]". Google Scholar. Retrieved 25 July 2020</ref> In 2018, he curated ''Divine Cargo'', an evening of performance art at South London Gallery.<ref>"[https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/divine-cargo/ Divine Cargo, Sat 11 AUG 2018, 6PM]". South London Gallery, 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2020</ref> In 2018, he contributed to ‘[https://www.dentdeleone.com/product/the-annotated-reader-br-ryan-gander-jonathan-p-watts The Annotated Reader]’, a publication and exhibition curated by Ryan Gander. In early 2019, he contributed a short essay to the King's College London project "Technologically Fabricated Intimacy."<ref>"[https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/projects/ais-technologically-fabricated-intimacy Technologically Fabricated Intimacy]". King’s Cultural Community. Retrieved 26 July 2020</ref>
His second book, ''Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War'' was published in October 2021 with Bloomsbury Publishing.<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=n-aWzQEACAAJ Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War]". Google Books. Retrieved 26 July 2020</ref> 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.'<ref>{{cite web | url=https://leonardo.info/review/2022/03/rereading-abstract-expressionism-clement-greenberg-and-the-cold-war | title=Rereading Abstract Expressionism: Clement Greenberg and the Cold War | date=March 2022 }}</ref>
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 Milano Indie Movie Awards.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.milanoindie.com/festivals/third-period-awards/ | title=THIRD PERIOD AWARDS – Milano Indie Movie Awards}}</ref>. He also, alongside filmmaker Ralph Pritchard, co-wrote and directed the 2025 short film ''Collaborative Efforts'', which was selected to screen at the 2026 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival.<ref>https://mammothlakesfilmfestival.eventive.org/schedule/69f151030bde981d2565207f</ref>
==Bibliography==
===Books=== * ''Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War''. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. {{ISBN|978-1-5013-5838-8}} * ''Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator''. Zero Books, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1-7809-9767-4}}
===Scholarly articles===
* [https://selvajournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/S6_7_Neofetou.pdf 'Greenberg After Duchamp: Postmodernism and the Meaning of Medium Specificity,' ''Selva: A Journal of the History of Art'', 2025, 6, 105-121.] * '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== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.thewire.co.uk/about/contributors/daniel-neofetou Daniel Neofetou] at ''The Wire''
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