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dorothy hodgkin
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Author/Editor: ARMSTRONG Dorothy.
Publisher: Cambridge Quarterly
Place Published: Cambridge
Year: 1980
Date & Collation: 9(2) 143-154(7 illus).
Description: Outlines approaches to the appreciation of sculpture, and continues with comments on individual torsos and Reclining Figures by Moore. Early torsos exhibit a stiff simplicity of form" their stylisation representing "a compromise between the form of a woman and the exigencies of the stone". The Reclining Figures represent "our fundamental physical being". Other figures show variously the influence of Landscape Surrealism and product design. They similarly exhibit degrees of sexuality threat unease tenderness anxiety. A disintegration of form is noticed particularly in some male figures. "Moore has made an important contribution to widening the possibilities of experience and to our imaginative liberation.""