“Made in England”: art history, criticism and curating through the writings of Lawrence Alloway, Dawn Ades and Lawrence Gowing

Lawrence Gowing, Lawrence Alloway and Dawn Ades make for perhaps a rather unlikely triumvirate. Yet the recent publication by Ridinghouse of volumes collating Gowing and Ades’s extensive critical output, together with Lucy Bradnock, Courtney J. Martin and Rebecca Peabody’s edition of interpretative essays on Alloway, offers an opportunity to compare three very different approaches to writing about art during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Alloway’s voice permeates Lawrence Alloway:..