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1939–2013 United States

Thomas McEvilley (/məkˈɛvɪli/; July 13, 1939 – March 2, 2013) was an American art critic, poet, novelist, and scholar. He was a Distinguished Lecturer in Art History at Rice University and founder and former chair of the Department of Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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Also known as: Thomas C. Mcevilley

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Romila Thapar, an Indian historian... is reviled by some Indian scholars for her acquiescence to many western points of view.

Still, it would be an equally egregious mistake to conclude that India lacks a distinctive and world-important character of its own. Nothing, it seems, comes out of nothing, and no culture is born by parthenogenesis. Ancient Greek culture has had at least as much input from the same sources without being denied its own “miraculous” selfhood.

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