Art and Pluralism - Lawrence Alloway's Cultural Criticism

Informationen zum Autor Nigel Whiteley is Head and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of Pop Design (1987), and co-editor of The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture (1992). Klappentext This book examines the writings of Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990), one of the most influential and widely-respected art writers of the post-War years. It provides a close and critical reading of his writings, and sets his work in the cultural and political context of the London and New York art worlds of the 1950s to the early 1980s. Zusammenfassung This book examines the writings of Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990)! one of the most influential and widely-respected art writers of the post-War years. It provides a close and critical reading of his writings! and sets his work in the cultural and political context of the London and New York art worlds of the 1950s to the early 1980s.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Whiteley
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.02.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9781846316456
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-645-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Value: Art: Politics; Liverpool University Press - V; Value: Art: Politics; Liverpool University Press - V
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history