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Author/Editor: LOUKOPOULOU Aikaterini

Publisher: Birkbeck College, University of London

Place Published: London

Year: 2010

Date & Collation: 2010(January)325pp.Illus.List of films and TV programmes.Sources and bibliography

Description: PhD thesis. 172-219 Chapter 4: Televising Art: John Read, Henry Moore and the BBC - describes of a new type of non-fiction film on contemporary artists developed through the BBC, in parallel to the emergence of pictorial films on art in the 1950s. Showing the artist as public figure; filmed in-situ. John Read and Moore were instrumental in its development. References to Moore throughout. 185-208 Henry Moore (1951): A Public Artist through a Public Medium reference to Telekinema, live BBC television images projected onto a cinema screen at the Festival of Britain, 1951; television discussion with Wyndham Lewis and Geoffrey Grigson, included Moore, in 1939; Henry Moore film made in 1947 based on MoMA's exhibition in New York in 1946; Jill Craigie's Out of Chaos, 1943, documentary about modern art, featuring the work of Moore, Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer; close collaboration with Moore in the production of the BBC film made by Read, Henry Moore, broadcast 30 April 1951; style of editing in relation to Moore's creative process; Moore's advice on lighting and framing; the holes of Moore's sculptures and Read's cinematographic approach; documentary modes and visual tropes adopted in the film making to represent Moore's formalism and abstraction; Associative use of editing, framing, image and sound juxtapositions to explore the creative process created a new documentary style.