Article: Around the galleries: London assumes a distinctly twentieth-century flavour this April with post-War abstraction, arts and crafts furniture and art-deco silverware on show.(Nine Abstract Artists )(book by Lawrence Alloway)(Book Review)

The seminal book Nine Abstract Artists by Lawrence Alloway, published in 1954, is a succint analysis of the development of post-War avant-garde art in Britain that helped to focus attention on the movements of a 'constructivist' group. Fifty years on, its forsightedness is being celebrated and reappraised in the exhibition 'Nine Abstract Artists--Revisited' at Osborne Samuel (23a Bruton Street, London, +44 [0]2 7493 7939). Running until 9 April, the exhibition unites the works of Robert Adams, Terry Frost, Adrian Heath, Anthony Hill, Roger Hilton, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Victor Pasmore and William Scott in homage to the exhibition 'Nine abstract artists' shown in ...

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