Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Moore at Tate Britain
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Bib. Number0023121
Moore at Tate Britain
PublisherBritish Broadcasting Coporation
Place PublishedLondon
Year2010
Date & Collation17 mins 43 ses.Sound.A246
LanguageEnglish
More InformationBroadcast on BBC Radio 4, as part of the Saturday Review on 27 February 2010. Presented by Tom Sutcliffe, Louise Doughty, Paul Morley and Richard Coles; Review in response to the retrospective exhibition Henry Moore at Tate Britain, which sets out to restore some of the shock that his art had before his popularity; Curator, Chris Stephens, selected more than 150 sculptures and drawings from Moore’s early career, up until the mid 1960s; Reference to Moore's interest in primitivism; sexual and erotic components of his work. Stephens attempts to make the case that many of Moore’s Mother and Child and Shelter studies are much less reassuring and tender than we assume.