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Henry Moore, O.M.: a memorial address.

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Bib. Number0010935

Henry Moore, O.M.: a memorial address.

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Author/EditorSPENDER Stephen.
PublisherFaber and Faber
Place PublishedLondon
Year
Date & Collation8pp.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationPublished for the Henry Moore Foundation. Text of the memorial address delivered in Westminster Abbey on 18 November 1986. Recalls Kenneth Clark's statement that Moore would have been the ideal ambassador of the human race to go to another planet. Notes Moore's humanity: All people to him were equals simply in being human." Remembers Hampstead in the 1930s and quotes Moore on abstraction and Surrealism. "Henry Moore throughout his life had a unique capacity for bringing together diverse elements of his observations of nature and of art into a unity of his personal vision." Notes his passion for the work of the great masters and for their spiritual vitality. Pays tribute to Moore's friendship and the simplicity of his working life style."