Lawrence Reginald Alloway (17 September 1926 – 2 January 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term "Pop Art" in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power of images.[1] From 1954 until his death in 1990, he was married to the painter Sylvia Sleigh.[2]
^Alloway, Lawrence (1975). "Pop Art the Words". Topics in American Art Since 1945. New York: W.W.Norton and Company. pp. 119–122.
^Brown, Betty Ann (1997). "Sleigh, Sylvia". In Gaze, Delia (ed.). Dictionary of Women Artists. Vol. 2. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. pp. 1280–1281.
Lawrence Reginald Alloway (17 September 1926 – 2 January 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the...
Cordell, although other sources credit its origin to British critic LawrenceAlloway. (Both versions agree that the term was used in Independent Group discussions...
preceded and legitimised its first exhibition in 1958, curated by LawrenceAlloway. The term, after being coined by Elaine de Kooning, is considered to...
well-known subjects were art critics, feminist artists, and her husband, LawrenceAlloway. Sleigh was born in Llandudno, and raised in England. She studied at...
new art movements – Roger Fry with the Post-Impressionist movement, LawrenceAlloway with pop art as examples. According to James Elkins there is a distinction...
representation needed in art. The term Systematic art was coined by LawrenceAlloway in 1966 as a description of the method artists, such as Kenneth Noland...
many bills, as well as his background as a medical doctor. Art critic LawrenceAlloway compared the pessimistic and gory writing of British art critic Robert...
Banham acted as assistant Director during the early 1950s, followed by LawrenceAlloway during the mid- to later 1950s. In its early years, the Institute organised...
art scene. Earlier in England in 1958 the term "Pop Art" was used by LawrenceAlloway to describe paintings associated with the consumerism of the post World...
conflict. The exhibition catalogue featured essays by Reyner Banham and LawrenceAlloway. McHale wrote the text for the page Are they Cultured? and it was intended...
strange, eerie and uncanny. Various writings on genre from Altman, LawrenceAlloway (Violent America: The Movies 1946-1964 (1971)) and Peter Hutchings...
Ross’s Star Axis," Artforum, October 28, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2022. LawrenceAlloway, Wolfgang Becker, Robert Rosenblum et al., Alan Sonfist, Nature: The...
Stanley Edgar Hyman, Kenneth Burke, and Camille Paglia, art critic LawrenceAlloway, composers Marc Blitzstein, Henry Brant, and Peter Golub, painters...
on one occasion, featured the bow of a fishing boat in a painting. LawrenceAlloway used the term "Pop art" to describe paintings celebrating consumerism...
popular culture. Earlier in England in 1956 the term Pop Art was used by LawrenceAlloway for paintings that celebrated consumerism of the post World War II...
and mentors included Howard Conant, Jules Olitski, Irving Sandler, LawrenceAlloway and Hale Woodruff, all of whom influenced her through their teachings...
provoked by the arrival of American Abstract Expressionism, while LawrenceAlloway and Reyner Banham celebrated new attitude towards art that embraced...
symmetry would often give way to varying widths of horizontal bands. LawrenceAlloway noted that Martin is in the first generation of the Abstract Expressionism...
1963 pop art exhibition "Six Painters and the Object", curated by LawrenceAlloway. The artists came from different backgrounds. Thiebaud was a teacher...
amongst others, and the group included the influential art critic LawrenceAlloway as well. In the 1960s, Sir Anthony Caro became a leading figure of...
2013), Overcoming the Orthodoxy of Abstraction The New York Times. LawrenceAlloway, "Alex Katz Paints Ada". Yale University Press, 2006. p. 93. Carter...
and historians such as Donald Judd, Dore Ashton, Rosalind Krauss, LawrenceAlloway, Germano Celant, Holland Cotter. In 2010, artists Cindy Hinant and...
size, and plastic and real space. The term "pop art" was used by LawrenceAlloway to describe paintings that celebrated consumerism of the post World...
While not a cohesive movement, the idea of Pop Art (a name coined by LawrenceAlloway and others) was gradually spreading among international art critics...
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