The Life of Henry MooreDutton, 1987 - 465 pagine Henry Moore's rise from Yorkshire miner's son to international acclaim as the twentieth century's greatest sculptor is one of the most remarkable stories in British art. In this revised, updated, expanded and redesigned new edition of The Life of Henry Moore, Roger Berthoud charts Moore's transition from controversial young modernist to pillar of the art-world establishment, garlanded with domestic and foreign honours. His account is enriched by the weekly interviews he did with Moore -- and his wife Irina -- before the sculptor's death in 1986, aged eighty-eight. At home and abroad Moore's sculptures aroused strong passions and were often the object of abuse, sharp criticism and even physical assault, as well as of admiration. He was attacked by younger artists, among others, who saw his growing fame as an obstacle to their advancement. He was to survive the ebb and flow in his reputation, and emerge with the status of a contemporary old master. From a mass of material, including recently discovered early letters, and interviews with Moore's friends, his former assistants and students, dealers, collectors, museum officials and leading architects with whom he worked, Roger Berthoud has built up a lively and engaging though not uncritical picture of Moore's long life and career in this definitive biography. Book jacket. |
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... Moore's letters to Jocelyn Horner ; to Wakefield City Art Gallery , from Moore's letters to Albert Wainwright ; to Ann Garrould , from Moore's letters to Alice Gostick ; to Ben Read , from Moore's letters to Herbert Read ; to the Coxons ...
... Moore's letters to Jocelyn Horner ; to Wakefield City Art Gallery , from Moore's letters to Albert Wainwright ; to Ann Garrould , from Moore's letters to Alice Gostick ; to Ben Read , from Moore's letters to Herbert Read ; to the Coxons ...
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... Moore's earlier shows in Paris had been well received even if not well attended , and Francis Bacon's retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1971 had been an outstanding success . So too now was Moore's major exhi- bition of 116 ...
... Moore's earlier shows in Paris had been well received even if not well attended , and Francis Bacon's retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1971 had been an outstanding success . So too now was Moore's major exhi- bition of 116 ...
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... Moore effect on Gould's $ 1.6 billion sales could be quantified . With refreshing cynicism he described Moore's work as ' perhaps the most pervasive artistic status symbol in the developed capitalist world ' during its expansionist ...
... Moore effect on Gould's $ 1.6 billion sales could be quantified . With refreshing cynicism he described Moore's work as ' perhaps the most pervasive artistic status symbol in the developed capitalist world ' during its expansionist ...
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