{"id":2968,"date":"2013-03-30T07:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T14:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2013-03-31T07:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T14:36:20","slug":"expansive-ways-of-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/expansive-ways-of-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;expansive ways of looking&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/31\/arts\/thomas-mcevilley-critic-and-scholar-of-non-western-art-dies-at-73.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas McEvilley, Critic and Defender of Non-Western Art, Dies at 73<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If some of us have learned anything since 1984, it&#8217;s how to value indigenous arts. Thank you, Thomas McEvilley. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas McEvilley, Critic and Defender of Non-Western Art, Dies at 73 If some of us have learned anything since 1984, it&#8217;s how to value indigenous arts. Thank you, Thomas McEvilley. &#8230;Mr. McEvilley was a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}