Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
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List of artwork by 96 different artists included in 'Disobedient Bodies', curated by fashion designer Jonathan Anderson. This exhibition was the first in a new series of collaborations between The Hepworth Wakefield and individuals from disciplines outside the visual arts, invited to respond to Wakefield's significant collection of modern British art. As a starting point for the exhibition, Anderson was drawn to early works by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore from the 1920s and 1930s that represented the human body in radical new ways. These increasingly abstracted, yet still defiantly figurative, sculptures - 'disobedient bodies', as Anderson described them.
One Moore work is featured in this exhibition, Reclining Figure, 1936 (LH 175).
Catalogue for the 2018 exhibition at the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield on Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain. Mentions of Moore throughout.
Chapter 1, by Eleanor Clayton, contains three illustrations of Moore works: p.31 Reclining Figure 1936; p.72 Stringed Figure 1939, Bird Basket 1939. pp.23-4 quotes Moore on his early visits to Paris in the 1920s and 30s. On p.32, there is a mention of Moore as a member of Unit 1, and Clayton notes that Moore positioned himself as between surrealism and abstraction. Other mentions of Moore: p.28, as one of the artists exhibited at the 1933 Exhibition of Recent Painting by English, French and German Artists; p.34, as a member of the organising committee of the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition; p.61, as one of the English surrealists who used to meet in the late 1930s at "The Barcelona" in Soho; and on p.71, listing three of Moore's works exhibited at the Zwemmer Gallery's 1940 exhibition Surrealism Today.
Chapter 2, by Hillary Floe, contains three illustrations of Mother and Child 1936-37, and one of Lee Miller's photographs of Moore in the London Underground from the filming of Out of Chaos. Mentions Moore on pp.86, 89, and 92 as appearing in surrealist publications (the International Surrealist Bulletin, Minotaure, The London Bulletin), and p.110 as being a war artist.