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33-511: Launched as a fortnightly broadsheet in February 1949 by a retired country medical practitioner, Dr Richard Gainsborough, and the first edition was designed by his wife, the artist Eileen Mayo , Arts News and Review set out to champion contemporary art in Britain, providing its readers with commentary, news and reviews. At the outset its focus was set firmly on the artist – its regular cover ‘Portrait of

66-460: A balanced and comprehensive picture of living art in twentieth-century Britain.’ Critics such as David Sylvester and John Berger , cut their teeth in its pages during the 1950s, as it covered the growing trend of abstract art , and the lively debates provoked by the arrival of American Abstract Expressionism , while Lawrence Alloway and Reyner Banham celebrated new attitude towards art that embraced science, industry and mass culture, elaborating

99-663: A description of mass communications, especially, but not exclusively, visual ones." In a footnote to his essay Pop Art the words , he also states, "The first published appearance of the terms that I know is: Lawrence Alloway, 'The Arts and the Mass Media,' Architectural Design, February 1958, London. Ideas on Pop Art were discussed by Reyner Banham , Theo Crosby , Frank Cordell , Toni del Renzio , Richard Hamilton , Nigel Henderson, John McHale , Eduardo Paolozzi , Alison and Peter Smithson , sculptor William Turnbull, and myself." However, there are contradictory recollections as to

132-536: A faith in the power of images. From 1954 until his death in 1990, he was married to the painter Sylvia Sleigh . Between 1943 and 1947, Alloway studied art history at the University of London , where he met the future critic and curator David Sylvester . Alloway wrote short book reviews for the London Times in 1944 and 1945, at which time he was between 17 and 19 years old. Alloway started writing reviews for

165-402: A guide to the 100 most powerful figures in contemporary art. The list is compiled up an anonymous international committee of art world professionals. The magazine claims that the list is judged according to a person's ability to influence the type of art that is being produced today, play a role in shaping the public perspective of art, they have to have been active in the previous 12 months before

198-590: A member of the Society of Wood Engravers , and wrote and illustrated a series of books. She also exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and with the Royal Society of British Artists . For a time she worked as an artists' model, for Bernard Meninsky , Duncan Grant , Dod Procter and particularly Laura Knight . In 1936 she married Dr Richard Gainsborough, who founded Art News & Reviews ; she designed

231-574: A period in Dunedin from 1972 to 1975, she remained in Christchurch until her death. Her last works were silkscreen prints, which she found the easiest medium to use with decreasing mobility, insisting, as always, that they be sold at affordable prices. Mayo continued to design stamps in New Zealand, such as the 1969 Cook Bicentenary and 1971 Antarctic Treaty, and UNICEF commemoratives and six stamps of

264-723: A printmaker, illustrator, calligrapher and muralist, she designed coins, stamps, tapestry and posters, and wrote and illustrated eight books on natural science. She was born in Norwich and educated in Yorkshire and the Clifton High School, Bristol . She had a thorough grounding in art, studying at the Slade School in London, the Central School of Arts and Crafts and under Henry Moore at

297-590: A series of solo artist projects both within the fair around the local area. The website, artreview.com, was launched in 2007. The website features art news and opinion pieces, as well as content from the magazine. Eileen Mayo Dame Eileen Rosemary Mayo DBE (11 September 1906 – 4 January 1994) was an English artist and designer who worked in England, Australia and New Zealand in almost every available medium – drawings, woodcuts, lithographs on stone and tempera, tapestry and silk screening. In addition to being

330-747: The Chelsea Polytechnic . In 1927 she was instructed in lino-cutting by Claude Flight over the telephone. Her resulting print was called "Turkish Bath", which was included in the Redfern Gallery 's 'First Exhibition of British Linocuts'. The picture was subsequently bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum . In 1940 she moved to Paris to study with Fernand Léger at the Académie Montmartre . She held teaching positions at Saint Martin's School of Art and Sir John Cass College in London. She became

363-579: The State University of New York, Stony Brook where he was appointed professor of art history . There he co-founded the magazine Art Criticism with the critic Donald Kuspit . With the rise of the feminist art movement , Alloway championed the work of women; he noted, for example, "a 3-to-1 advantage" of men over women in the Whitney Annual in 1977. Concerning the origins of the term Pop Art , Alloway said, "The term, originated in England by me, as

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396-591: The 1970 moths and fish definitive series for the New Zealand Post Office . Written and Illustrated by Eileen Mayo Illustrated by Eileen Mayo Mayo was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire , for services to art, in the 1994 New Year Honours , one week before her death at the age of 87. Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Reginald Alloway (17 September 1926 – 2 January 1990)

429-592: The Australian Commonwealth series of six postage stamps issued between 1959 and 1962 she designed the platypus for the one-shilling stamp and was awarded the Maude Vizard-Wholohan Prize for prints in 1962. Other stamps in the series feature the kangaroo, banded anteater, tiger cat, rabbit bandicoot and the Tasmanian tiger (now believed extinct). This stamp series is significant as it was one of

462-682: The British periodical Art News and Review (later renamed ArtReview ) in 1949 and for the American periodical Art News in 1953. In Nine Abstract Artists (1954) he promoted the Constructivist artists that emerged in Britain after the Second World War: Robert Adams , Terry Frost , Adrian Heath , Anthony Hill , Roger Hilton , Kenneth Martin , Mary Martin , Victor Pasmore , and William Scott . Alloway's theory of art reflecting

495-542: The Guggenheim after Thomas M. Messer , the museum's director, overruled Alloway's selections—consisting mostly of sculptures—for the upcoming Venice Biennale . In 1966–67, Alloway was appointed visiting professor at the School of Fine Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale , where John McHale and Buckminster Fuller were also on staff. In the 1970s, Alloway wrote for The Nation and Artforum , and lectured at

528-614: The US, but also in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Artists featured on the cover have included Yayoi Kusama , Subodh Gupta , Liam Gillick , Ai Weiwei , Thomas Hirschhorn , Keren Cytter , Steve McQueen , Yael Bartana , Phyllida Barlow , Dóra Maurer , Tacita Dean , Danh Vo , Sarah Lucas , Fernanda Gomes , Ragnar Kjartansson , Geta Brătescu . In 2012 ArtReview published a special supplement on Brazilian art history, and has since expanded its coverage of

561-460: The artist’ introduced its readership to emerging artists as well as reconnecting with the past masters of modernism from before the war. Cover artists included Édouard Manet , Henry Moore , Barbara Hepworth and Lucian Freud . As its editorial would declare in 1954, Art News and Review's purpose was ‘to stimulate the criticism of contemporary art, to give to both painters and writers space they would never find elsewhere, and to endeavour to present

594-542: The concrete materials of modern life gave way to an interest in mass-media and consumerism. Alloway joined the Independent Group in 1952 and lectured on his theory of a circular link between popular cultural "low art" and "high art". From 1955 to 1960 he was assistant director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He organised the exhibition Collages and Objects (1954). In 1956 Alloway contributed to organising

627-1099: The country's art scene. In 2018 it produced an issue looking at the legacy of the Situationists . In June 2019, the magazine announced that Modern Media Holdings had acquired a majority stake in its publisher ArtReview Ltd. Lawrence Alloway , J. G. Ballard , Reyner Banham , Cecil Beaton , Sister Wendy Beckett , John Berger , Nicolas Bourriaud , Michael Bracewell , Anita Brookner , Jan Carew , Matthew Collings , Maurice Collis , John Coplans , Richard Cork , Janet Daley , Marie Darrieussecq , Geoff Dyer , Kenneth Frampton , Peter Fuller , Patrick Heron , Anthony Hill , Stewart Home , Siri Hustvedt , Liam Gillick , Frederick Joss , David Lee , Henri Matisse , Eileen Mayo , Rosie Millard , Eric Newton , Victor Pasmore , Nikolaus Pevsner , Heather Phillipson , Herbert Read , Bryan Robertson , Arundhati Roy , Jasia Reichardt , Brian Sewell , David Sylvester , Marina Vaizey , Christian Viveros-Fauné , and Max Wykes-Joyce . Since 2002 ArtReview has published its annual Power 100 list,

660-453: The cover have included Lee Kit , Carsten Nicolai , Lee Bul , Ming Wong , Eko Nugroho, Cao Fei and Nalini Malani . Contributors include literary theorist Sung Ge, artist Heman Chong , novelist Prabda Yoon and novelist Charu Nivedita , who writes a regular column. In 2016 and 2017 ArtReview Asia collaborated with the Shanghai art fair West Bund Art & Design to curate 'Xiàn Chǎng',

693-491: The earliest attempts at putting Australian flora and fauna on stamps. In addition it was one of the first times that a designer further commercialised their designs by producing poster versions of the stamp artwork and made them available for sale. This series, the first to be designed by a woman, were for the Postmaster-General's Department now called Australia Post . Mayo produced many stamp and poster designs depicting

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726-538: The exhibition This Is Tomorrow . When reviewing that show and other works he had seen on a trip to the US in a 1958 article, he first used the term "mass popular art". In 1961, through his contacts with the American painter Barnett Newman , Alloway was offered a lecturer position at Bennington College in Vermont . He and his wife, the realist painter Sylvia Sleigh , lived in Bennington for only one year before Alloway

759-579: The first issue when it appeared in 1949. The marriage ended in 1952. Mayo emigrated to Australia in 1952 after separating from her husband and became one of the many migrants who contributed to the postwar print revival. She taught at the National Art School in Sydney and was a member of Sydney Printmakers. Her career in Australia included working on murals and designing tapestries and posters. As part of

792-480: The flora and fauna of Australia. In 1962, she moved to Waimate , New Zealand, where her mother and sister had lived since 1921. By 1965 Mayo had moved to Christchurch, where she taught at the University of Canterbury (SFA) until 1972. For more than three years she also worked on an underwater diorama with Otago Museum. A founding member of Sydney Printmakers, she was on the Print Council of New Zealand. Apart from

825-490: The list is published and have to have an international rather than exclusively domestic influence. In October 2011, the magazine was criticised by the Chinese government for placing Ai Weiwei at number one of that year's Power 100. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin responded "China has many artists who have sufficient ability. We feel that a selection that is based purely on a political bias and perspective has violated

858-445: The monthly magazine Art Review . Sensing a new, more youthful and irreverent mood taking shape in contemporary art, it put Gilbert & George on the cover, and drew a growing readership to the work of the ' Young British Artists ’, towards the internationalising art world of the 2000s. By 2006 ArtReview had reinvented itself once more, to grapple with the artistic product of an artworld now thriving not only in Britain, Europe and

891-445: The objectives of the magazine". ArtReview Asia was launched in 2013 as a quarterly magazine. Along with a quarterly Chinese edition of ArtReview, introduced in 2022 in collaboration with Yishu Shijie, ArtReview Asia offers an eclectic mix of content. This includes criticism, reviews, commentary, and analysis, complemented by commissioned projects from artists, informative guides, and a range of special supplements. Artists featured on

924-491: The recession-hit 1970s, a period marked by a conservative backlash against contemporary art. Arts Review weathered the economic turmoil of a changing art market into the 1980s, widening its attention to the resurgent markets and cultures of craft and design, while following the turn towards the new figurative painting and sculpture that characterised art in Britain during the Thatcher decade. By 1993 Arts Review had relaunched as

957-460: The term Systemic Art to "describe a type of abstract art characterized by the use of very simple standardized forms, usually geometric in character, either in a single concentrated image or repeated in a system arranged according to a clearly visible principle of organization". Alloway was also an ardent supporter of Abstract expressionism and American Pop artists, such as Roy Lichtenstein , Claes Oldenburg , and Andy Warhol . He resigned from

990-466: The terms of what became known as ‘Pop’ art. In 1954 Henri Matisse wrote for the magazine. Renaming itself Arts Review in March 1961, the magazine charted the advent of Pop art and the sharper look of ‘New Generation’ sculpture and hard-edge painting , while young critics like Brian Sewell balanced the merits of non-figurative art against socialist realism , and Jasia Reichardt , the assistant editor of

1023-402: The title, looked towards art's growing involvement with technology. By the end of the 1960s Arts Review was pondering the ‘unparalleled fragmentation’ in art, remarking that art ‘has still to find the power to draw communities together, and heal’. Socially-minded young critics such as Richard Cork , Peter Fuller and Janet Daley would bring their voices to the complexities of conceptual art in

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1056-513: Was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term " Pop Art " in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it

1089-647: Was appointed curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City , a position he held until 1966. In 1963 he organised the pop art show, Six Painters and the Object . He chaired the jury of the 1964 Guggenheim Awards , one of which was refused by the painter Asger Jorn . In 1966, Alloway curated the influential Systemic Painting exhibition that showcased geometric abstraction in American art via Minimal art , Shaped canvas , and Hard-edge painting . He coined

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