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Tag Archives: Lawrence Alloway
pining for the grey elysium
Can an artist be beyond the reach of criticism because they have been so institutionalized and commodified by the taste makers of celebrity? Are we buying the talent, the art or the brand, like the steak and sizzle distinction. The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, bertram lewin, Charles Le Brun, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Velazquez, james kalm, Jasper Johns, Lawrence Alloway, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, w.r. bion, Walter Benjamin, willem de Kooning
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surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps
In spite of recounting at length her zealotry for “trash” and “kitsch,” which she famously claimed to prefer over serious minded films, Seligman never calls Kael to task for disingenuously backing away from her clarion call of the 1960s. “When … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Breton, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, Douglas Cooper, Harold Rosenberg, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Lawrence Alloway, Mark Tobey, max kozloff, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pauline Kael, Philip Coppens, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky
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ART AU GO-GO
It was all about the goodies, the girls and the games. Pop art, according to Lawrence Alloway, the critic who invented the term, is ”the use of popular art sources by fine artists: movie stills, science fiction, advertisements, game boards, … Continue reading