Lawrence Alloway, art critic
Systemic Painting (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
Systemic Painting (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Systemic Painting Systemic Painting is an aspect of post-painterly abstraction defined by Lawrence Alloway in an exhibition held in New York in 1966. On display were works by 28...
Pop Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
Pop Art (1992) (Also Commodity Art, Commonism, Consumer Style, Consumerist Realism, Factualist Art, Gag Art, Industrial Art, New Sign Painting, New Super Realism, O K Art, Reactionary Realism.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Pop Art...
Junk Culture / Junk Sculpture (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 10 Jun 92
Junk Culture / Junk Sculpture (1992) (Also Culture de Débris, Scrap Art.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Junk Culture / Junk Sculpture These are two closely related terms dating from the 1950s. The British art critic Lawrence Alloway...
Independent Group (IG) (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 09 Jun 92
Independent Group (IG) (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. The Independent Group The Independent Group (IG) is the name of an informal think-tank formed by younger members of the ICA, London, which met intermittently between 1952...
Hi-Way Culture (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 08 Jun 92
Hi-Way Culture (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Hi-Way Culture Hi-Way Culture is Lawrence Alloway’s 1967 term for the icons and hardware associated with the motor car, trucks and highways of the United States. Roadside structures...
Abstract Sublime (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 30 May 92
Abstract Sublime (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Abstract Sublime Abstract Sublime is a term used by the American critic Robert Rosenblum in 1961 in reference to paintings by certain members of the abstract expressionist...
Abstract Impressionism (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 30 May 92
Abstract Impressionism (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Abstract Impressionism Elaine de Kooning coined Abstract Impressionism in 1951 to describe paintings with a uniform pattern of brushstrokes, which retained the optical...
The Independent Group:
Fathers [and mothers] of Pop (1990)
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John A. Walker - 01 Feb 90
The Independent Group: Fathers [and mothers] of Pop (1990) A review of the exhibition The Independent Group: Post-War Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Feb-April 1990. Britain in the early 1950s was still suffering from the adverse effects of the...
