Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Modern British Sculpture
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Bib. Number0022785
Modern British Sculpture
Author/EditorCORK Richard
PublisherRA Magazine
Place PublishedLondon
Year2010
Date & Collation2010 (Winter) (109) 46-49 (1 illus)
LanguageEnglish
More InformationReview of Modern British Sculpture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, 22 January - 7 April 2010. 46 Cork writes that sculpture in Britain underwent an astonishing and irrepressible revolution during the twentieth century. Even when Moore gained an immense international reputation his formal language was challenged by outstanding members of the next generation". 48 reference to Moore "enthralled when he encountered the Chacmool reclining figures carved by Aztec sculptors". Highlighted quote "Moore preferred to keep his sculpture separate from the buildings it enhanced. He wanted to free the modern sculptor from being "just a decorator for the architect" and Hepworth agreed with him". 49 illus of Reclining Figure 1951 bronze (LH 293). Reference to support by Epstein; concern with the naked body; focus on female reclining figures; preoccupation with childhood memories of his mother; the importance of parental love; simplified abstraction of the human figure; shared interest with Hepworth; resentment of architecture as "the mother of all arts"; turned down invitation to produce eight seated figures for the façade of London University's Senate House in 1938."