Full Description
This title was first published in 2003. For more than half a century, Henry Moore has enjoyed a privileged place as a pioneer of modern British sculpture. His work is familiar in public spaces worldwide. Celebrated for reconfiguring sculptural form, and hailed as a potent avant-garde artist, Moore has now become a quintessential establishment figure. This collection of essays is the first to reconnect Moore both to his times and to the preoccupations of modern art-historical scholarship. Examining broad themes in Moore's work from the 1930s to the 1980s, the essays reposition canonical sculptures, offering readings of the diverse historical, economic and cultural conditions in which Moore's work was produced and understood.
Contents
Contentsname: Henry Moore's studio-homes and their bearings, 1926-46, Jon Wood; The unfamiliar figure: Henry Moore in French periodicals of the 1930s, Julia Kelly; 'Truth' and 'truth to material': reflecting on the sculptural legacy of Henry Moore, Susan Hiller; Henry Moore and the uncanny, Andrew Causey; Bombs, birth and trauma: Henry Moore's and D.W. Winnicott's prehistory fragments, Lyndsey Stonebridge; Henry Moore and the post-war British landscape: monuments ancient and modern, Penelope Curtis and Fiona Russell; Henry Moore's 'open-air' sculpture: a modern, reforming aesthetic of sunlight and air, Robert Burstow; Moore's eclecticism: difference, aesthetic identity and community in the architectural commissions, 1938-58, Margaret Garlake; Dreams of the Sleeping Beauty: Henry Moore in Polish art criticism and the media, post-1945, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius; Ground zero: Henry Moore's Atom Piece at the University of Chicago, Iain A. Boal; Henry Moore's Atom Piece: the 1930s generation comes of age, Chris Stephens; Index.
