Word: alloway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cornell has kept himself and his work so aloof from the world for so long that he has become more a subject for intellectual quarterlies than for public display. But a lately revived interest in surrealism and the reappearance of nonabstract art are drawing attention back to him. Lawrence Alloway, former curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, originally picked him as one of four artists to represent the U.S. at this year's Venice Biennale. California's forward-looking Pasadena Art Museum plans a survey of his work for this coming autumn...
...Alloway Went Thataway. Just about every other group was, though (see color pages). In their late-Czarist pavilion, bearing a hammer and sickle, the Russians displayed their usual Soviet pop, in which Lenin portraits are repeated with the regularity and exactitude of Campbell's Soup cans. The Austrians laid claim to some sort of verbiage prize with an entry by one Curt Stenvert. It consisted of a gilded skeleton sharing a glass case with a sexy mannequin, knee high in artificial flowers and covered with photographed tattoos. Title: 38th Human Situation: As a Deceased Tycoon to bequeath your Charming...
...Pavilion, which resembles a miniature Monticello, nearly wound up empty. For the first time, the Smithsonian Institution's National Collection of Fine Arts was charged with the job of filling it. The Smithsonian, in turn, asked the British-born curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, Lawrence Alloway, 39, to select what was finest in American...
...Alloway, credited with coining the term pop, picked the late Jackson Pollock, the late David Smith, Joseph Cornell, maker of bric-a-brac-packed boxes, Ernest Trova, who endlessly repeats images of falling men, and Roy Lichtenstein. His choice was promptly amended by his boss, Guggenheim Director Thomas Messer, who dropped Lichtenstein and Pollock and chose mostly sculpture. Displeased, the Smithsonian then turned the whole deal over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's associate curator, Henry Geldzahler, 30. Last week Alloway resigned from the Guggenheim...