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Author/Editor: BURSTOW Robert.
Publisher: Henry Moore Institute
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 2008
Date & Collation: 16pp.illus
Description: Number 60 in the Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture series. Essay considering how the Sculpture in the Home exhibitions of the 1940s and 1950s relate to the reconstruction and modernisation of the home and family in post-war Britain. List mentions of Moore throughout, with main mention pages 11-12; Moore showed more works in these exhibitions than any sculptor except the principal selector Dobson"; plus discussion on Moore's own domestic life with his own textiles used in the interior of Hoglands. Illustrated throughout with archive photographs of the original exhibitions with selected sculpture shown in detail. Accompanying exhibition Sculpture in the Home: Re-staging a post-war initiative held at Mezzanine Gallery Leeds (02 Oct 2008 - 04 Jan 2009). Exhibition private view cards showing Moore's Rocking Chair No.2 1950 bronze (LH 275) inlcuded."