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0022537
Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 60mins.Colour.Sound
Description: BBC4 documentary, broadcast 23 February 2011, presented by Alastair Sooke looking at sculptors from the turn of the 20th Century and their influence on Modern sculpture. Topics include: Leeds School of Art; Barbara Hepworth; Reclining Figure 1929 brown Hornton Stone, influenced by Mayan carvings. Sooke suggests Moore's figure is both fiercely erotic and confrontational; Discussion on how Moore becomes a household name - Sooke states he is the first artistic superstar of the TV age. Arts Council commission for Festival of Britain; Reclining Figure: Festival 1951; Interview with Chris Stephens of Tate Britain - discusses how Moore's figures can evoke the horrors of Hiroshima and the Holocaust; British Council; Falling Warrior; nuclear threat; Harlow New Town; Harlow Family Group; Florence exhibition; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Includes BBC archive footage of previously broadcast programmes. Also shows Reclining Figure: Arch Leg and Torso. See 0021960 for Modern British Sculpture exhibition at RA.
0022378
Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 30mins.Colour.Sound
Description: Popular highbrow evening quiz show presented by Jeremy Paxman, broadcast 14 November 2011 8:30pm BBC2. Features image of Moore’s Knife Edge Two Piece 1962-65 bronze, (LH 516) in a picture round on the subject of public sculpture in Britain.
0022960
Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 3mins45secs.Colour.Sound.V407
Description: Report by Yvonne Hall on Moore at Hatfield, celebrating the 400 years of Hatfield House; King and Queen 1952-53 bronze (LH 350) and Reclining Figure Angles 1979 bronze (LH 675); interview with Nick Moorhouse (business director, Hartfield House) and Annabel Friedlein (The Henry Moore Foundation); pieces exhibited in landscapes setting and search of different angles.
0022961
Publisher: Art Gallery of Ontario
Place Published: Ontario
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 4mins56secs.Colour.Sound.V419
Description: Filmed at The Henry Moore Sculpture Center; The Juno Tour of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario; throat-singer Tanya Tagaq sings her praise for Henry Moore’s sculptures in her unique, guttural, melodic voice; resonance with Moore’s work.
0022963
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 9min48sec.Colour.Sound.V425
Description: Footage of the inauguration of Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 bronze (LH 482a) in Greenwich Park presented by Colin Buttery, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Parks, The Royal Parks; Graham Dear, Greenwich Park Manager, Jonathan Edwards and Anita Feldman; general views of the Moore’s work in Greenwich Park and London on the background; close-up to the piece.
0022962
Author/Editor: The Henry Moore Foundation
Publisher: A film Infinity Production
Place Published: Perry Green
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 23min09sec.Colour.Sound.V423
Description: Report produced by Ian Miles and Chris Whitehead on the restoration process of Large Figure in a Shelter 1985-86 bronze (LH 652c); opening credits: last Moore’s work in 1986, only two bronzes cast (Guernica and Perry Green) by Morris Singer foundry; restored and patinated for the first time, using Moore’s techniques. Interview with Anita Feldman, in the Bourne maquette studio; idea from 1939 about protection in shelters; views of different maquettes showing the Moore’s work evolution; Maquette for Helmet Head No. 6 1975 bronze (LH 650); Helmet Head No. 7 1975 bronze (LH 652); architectural final piece. Interview with James Copper, sculpture conservator; process of enlargement in polyester and casted in 7 sections reassembled in 1986; deterioration due to the weather conditions and its consequences; process of restoration with different products; reaction of each treatment and tool on the surface; views of the piece restored from different angles and in the landscape setting.