Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic

ISBN-13: 9780415391672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 328 str.

Lawrence Alloway; Richard Kalina

Opis

Lawrence Alloway ranks among the most important critics of his time, and his contributions to the spirited and contentious dialogue of his era make for fascinating reading. This collection of twenty-nine provocative essays from 1956 to 1980 provides readers with valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the 20th century. Lawrence Alloway was born in London in 1926 and died in New York in 1990, where he had taken up permanent residence in 1960 just prior to his appointment as Curator at the Guggenheim Museum. Critic, curator, editor, and teacher, Alloway wrote prescient pieces about the interactions of the fine arts with commercial art, science fiction, cybernetics, film, the mass media, and urban structures. An early member of the groundbreaking Independent Group in London, he coined the term "Pop Art," and his critical and curatorial advocacy was an important factor in that movement's early success. Throughout his career he maintained an inclusive, democratic view of art - one that encompassed popular culture, film, systemic abstract painting, realism, environmental art, women's art, the complex issues surrounding mechanical reproduction, the distribution of information and power in the art world, and the semiotics of cultural institutions.
This text features a critical commentary by Richard Kalina, and a preface by series editor, Saul Ostrow.

Spis treści

Preface Saul Ostrow  Commentary Richard Kalina  1. Quick Symbols  2. Technology and Sex in Science Fiction: A Note on Cover Art  3. Design as a Human Activity  4. Personal Statement  5. The Arts and the Mass Media   6. The Long Front of Culture  7. City Notes  8. Artists as Consumers  9. Junk Culture  10. Pop Art since 1949  11. Six Painters and the Object  12. The American Sublime  13. The Critic and the Visual Arts  14. Art and the Communications Network  15. Systemic Painting  16. Art and the Expanding Audience  17. Pop Art: The Words  18. The Spectrum of Monochrome  19. Position Paper  20. Anthropology and Art Criticism  21. Systems of Cross-Reference in the Arts: On Translation  22. On Style. An Examination of Roy Lichtenstein’s Development, Despite a New Monograph on the Artist  23. Photo-Realism  24. The Function of the Art Critic  25. Artists as Writers, Part One: Inside Information  26. Realism as a Problem  27. De Kooning: Criticism and Art History  28. The Complex Present  29. Problems of Iconography and Style

O autorze

Richard Kalina is a painter, critic, and Professor of Art at Fordham University in New York. He is a Contributing Editor at Art in America. He writes on Pop Art, Minimalism and Postminimalism, Conceptual Art, Abstract Expressionism, and issues relating to contemporary abstraction