Lawrence Alloway

Lawrence Alloway (London, 1926 - New York, January 2, 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from the 1960s. In the 1950s he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the U.K. and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the U.S. He used the term Pop Art in the late 1950s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power of images.^[1]