Henry Moore
Finn Juhl at Designmuseum Danmark (press release) (2012)
→ café libraryADP staff - 14 Mar 12
...Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Erik Thommesen but was often displayed alongside works by these artists. Finn Juhl. Model 45 chair. An exponent of Danish organic modernism Finn Juhl’s furniture calls out and sparks admiration, because it possesses a certain light, sculptural elegance...
Candy-coated crimes: Arts professionals confess vs. Iggy Pop (2012)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineADP staff - 25 Feb 12
...Henry Moore etching with a pneumatic staple gun, GBH to a photograph owned by Elton John with glass cleaning fluid and attempted murder of a John Hoyland print with lump of marble. I remain at large. Do not approach me. Your art is at risk. * The criminal offences of common assault, actual...
Grayson Perry curates: Unpopular culture (press release) (2008)
→ café libraryADP staff - 01 Jun 09
...Henry Moore, Paul Nash; Eduardo Paolozzi; Martin Parr; Tony Ray-Jones and Homer Sykes as well as two striking new works by Grayson Perry himself. It opens at De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea before embarking on a national tour. Unpopular Culture examines a period in history which Grayson...
Middelheim Open Air Museum of Sculpture
→ café libraryR.J. Preece - 01 Nov 04
...Henry Moore. The sculpture biennials continued until 1989, with up to roughly 60 artists participating in each show. While in previous years Middelheim’s emphasis was on filling historical gaps in its collection, since 1993 its mission has shifted to a focus on contemporary art, “with the...
Sydney Besthoff: Collecting New Orleans-style (2004)
→ café libraryR.J. Preece - 01 Oct 04
...Henry Moore, Arnaldo Pomodoro, George Rickey, George Segal, Joel Shapiro, and Ossip Zadkine. (The remaining nine were museum purchases or gifts from other donors.) Previously, most of the Besthoffs’ sculpture collection was on view at K&B Plaza, a seven-story office building in downtown New...
Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineJohn A. Walker - 08 May 02
Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Left Shift which gives a year-by-year account of developments. Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 Cover image: Jordan in Derek Jarman’s film Jubilee, (1978). In China, Chairman Mao Zedong and Chou En-Lai died; and the...
Monitor BBC TV programme - 1958-1965 (1993)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 May 93
Monitor BBC TV programme - 1958-1965 (1993) Monitor, a crucially important early series that ran from February 1958 to July 1965, set the pattern for much that was to follow [in terms of open-ended arts TV in Britain]. The series was part of the output of the Talks Department and was made at...
Tactile Sculpture (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 18 Jun 92
...Henry Moore but also specially commissioned new pieces by Lawrence Burt, Malcolm Hughes and Tim Mapston. A touring show of sculpture for the visually handicapped was also organized by the Nottingham Castle Museum in 1985. That blind people can be trained in the “visual” art of sculpture has been...
St Martins School of Art Sculptors (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
...Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. They also avoided the “geometry of fear” style, submitting instead to the influence of American artists like the sculptor David Smith and the abstract painter Kenneth Noland. The British sculptors first attracted public attention at the New Generation exhibition...
Neo-Romanticism / Neo-Romantic Painting (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 13 Jun 92
...Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Cecil Collins, John Craxton, David Jones, John Minton, Michael Ayrton, Robert Colquhoun and Keith Vaughan. The film director Michael Powell was also dubbed a Neo-Romantic. The artists listed above never belonged to an identifiable group but were seen...
Jungian Aesthetics (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 10 Jun 92
...Henry Moore. The latter wished to avoid any conscious knowledge of Jungian theory but American artists such as John Graham, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb were keen to learn all they could. For some years Jackson Pollock underwent analysis by a Jungian and produced drawings for his...
Figurative Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 06 Jun 92
...Henry Moore and Leon Golub from successfully combining figuration and modernist devices. Also, many painters thought of as completely abstract— e.g. Jackson Pollock— have permitted figurative elements to surface in their work. See also Bay Area Figuration, Critical Realism, Humanist Art,...
Curwen Studio (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...Henry Moore. The Curwen Press dated from the nineteenth century. Under Harold Curwen (printer) and Oliver Simon (typographer), in the period between the two world wars, it became famous for its book illustration and typography. The Curwen Studio was established by Timothy Simon in Plaistow,...
Artists’ Foundations (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 01 Jun 92
...Henry Moore Sculpture Trust. Reference and further reading > Walter Robinson. “Artists turn philanthropic”. Art in America, 78(7), July 1990, pp. 152-3, +184.
Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation in retrospect (1988-89)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Dec 88
...Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Ben Nicholson and John Piper. The more extreme modernism of an artist like Pablo Picasso was not, however, to his taste. In his autobiography Kenneth Clark claimed that he was always apolitical. During the second world war, however, he seems to have recognised...
