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July, 1939 march 2, 20 was an american art critic, poet, novelist, and scholar. Mcevilley argues, for example, against the dominant theoretical position which removed art from contextual examination by declaring its sublime nature somehow elevated above ordinary life, and he goes on to effectively destroy the notion that modernism in the larger sense is an example of the superiority of technological society. Original papers, fast turnaround and reasonable prices. Art thomas mcevilley modernism, postmodernism, and the end v vorld war ii was a terrible disappointment for human hopes.