Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Smooth Operator
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Bib. Number0022723
Smooth Operator
Author/EditorSEARLE Adrian
PublisherThe Guardian
Place PublishedLondon
Year2010
Date & Collation2010 (24 February) 19-21 (4 illus)
LanguageEnglish
More InformationAdrian Searle's review of Henry Moore at Tate Britain (24 February-8 August 2010). Reference to Freud and discoveries of psychoanalysis in the 1920s-30s; Dali; Giacometti; Jean Arp; African carvings, Mayan, Egyptian and early Iberian sculpture that Moore called primitive"; Picasso; sexual undertones; quotes the exhibition curator Chris Stephens comments on Moore's preoccupation with the human body as "abject erotic vulnerable violated and visceral ... absurd uncanny and claustrophobic"; George Bataille Hans Bellmer Louise Bourgeois Paul McCarthy Bruce Nauman and Thomas Schütte Fischili and Weiss and Bruce McLean; Francis Bacon's 1944 Studies at the Base of a Crucifixion; Truth to materials; SEARLE writes "There is a sense of gravity and rest. The sculptures slow time down to a full stop and us with it"."