Art and pluralism
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Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990) was one of the most influential and widely respected (as well as prolific) art writers of the post-war years. His many books, catalogue essays and reviews manifest the changing paradigms of art away from the formal values of modernism towards the inclusiveness of the visual culture model in the 1950s, through the diversity and excesses of the 1960s, to the politicisation in the wake of 1968 and the Vietnam war, on to postmodern concerns in the 1970s.Alloway was in the right places at the right times. From his central involvement with the Independent Group and the ICA in London in the 1950s, he moved to New York, the new world centre of art, at the beginning of the 1960s. In the early 1970s he became deeply involved with the realist revival and the early feminist movement in art - Sylvia Sleigh, the painter, was his wife - and went on to write extensively about the gallery and art market as a system, examining the critic's role within this system. Positioning himself against the formalism and exclusivism associated with Clement Greenberg, Alloway was wholeheartedly committed to pluralism and diversity in both art and society. For him, art and criticism were always to be understood within a wider set of cultural, social and political concerns, with the emphasis on democracy, social inclusiveness, and freedom of expression. Art and Pluralism provides a close critical reading of Alloway's writings, and sets his work and thought within the cultural contexts of the London and New York art worlds from the 1950s through to the early 1980s. It is a fascinating study of one of the most significant art critics of the twentieth century.
כותר |
Art and pluralism : Lawrence Alloway's cultural criticism / Nigel Whiteley. [electronic resource] |
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מוציא לאור |
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press |
שנה |
2012 |
הערות |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Cover Half-title Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Section A: Introduction 1. Alloway and pluralism 2. Background 3. The British art scene 4. Early career Section B: Continuum, 1952-1961 1. Art criticism, 1951-1952 2. The ICA in the early 1950s 3. The Independent Group: aesthetic problems 4. The Independent Group: popular culture 5. Art criticism, 1953- 6. Alloway and abstraction 7. Alloway and figurative art 8. This Is Tomorrow, 1956 9. Information Theory 10. Group 12 and Information Theory 11. Science fiction 12. The cultural continuum model13. Writings about the movies 14. Graphics and advertising 15. Design 16. Architecture and the city 17. Channel flows 18. Art autre 19. The human image 20. Modern Art in the United States, 1956 21. Action Painting 22. First trip to the USA 23. The New American Painting, 24. Alloway and Greenberg 25. Cold wars 26. British art and the USA: The Middle Generation 27. A younger generation and the avant-garde 28. Hard Edge 29. Place and the avant-garde, 30. Situation and its legacy 31. The emergence of Pop art 32. Alloway's departure Section C: Abundance, 1961-19711. Arrival in the USA and "Clemsville" 2. Junk art 3. American Pop 4. Curator at the Guggenheim 5. Six Painters and the Object and Six More, 6. Other writings on Pop 7. Art as human evidence 8. Alexander Liberman and Paul Feeley 9. Systemic Painting, 10. Abstraction and iconography 11. The communications network 12. Departure from the Guggenheim 13. Exile in Carbondale 14. Arts Magazine 15. The Venice Biennale 16. Return to New York: SVA, SUNY, and The Nation 17. Options 18. Expanding and disappearing works of art 19. Alloway's Nation criticism 20. Newness and the avant-garde21. Post-Minimal radicalism 22. Historical revisions: Abstract Expressionism and Picasso 23. Mass communications 24. Film criticism 25. Violent America 26. Pluralism as a "unifying theory" Section D: Alternatives, 1971-1988 1. Disorientation and dissent in the art world 2. Alloway and the politicization of art, 1968-1970 3. Changing values, 1971-1972 4. Artforum and the art world as a system 5. 1973 and a new pluralism 6. The uses and limits of art criticism 7. Criticism and women's art, 1972-1974 8. Women's art and criticism, 1975 9. The realist "renewal"10. Photo-Realism 11. The realist "revival" 12. Realist revisionism 13. The decline of the avant-garde 14. "Legitimate variables" 15. Earth art 16. Public art 17. In praise of plenty 18. Crises in the art world: criticism 19. Crises in the art world: feminism 20. Crises in the art world: curatorship 21. The co-ops and "alternative" spaces 22. Turn of the decade decline 23. Mainstream... 24. ... and "alternative" 25. The last years 26. The complex present Section E: Summary and Conclusion 1. Pluralism 2. "Post-Modernism" 3. Art history 4. Art criticism 5. Alloway's reputation |
סדרה |
Value, art, politics |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (xiv, 510 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
שפה |
אנגלית |
מספר מערכת |
997010719107905171 |
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