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Henry Moore in America: Art, Business and the Special Relationship

Henry Moore in America: Art, Business and the Special Relationship

Rose, Pauline

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Visual Culture

Art HistoryIndividual ArtistsSculpture & Installation

ISBN10: 1848858213
ISBN13: 9781848858213
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 19 2013
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Although a quintessentially English sculptor, Henry Moore experienced outstanding success in the United States. A man much admired and revered, he was the natural choice for corporate and civil commissions, with many seeing ownership of his work as an expression of rank and aspiring wealth. The fact that the United States contains the greatest number of his sculptures, as opposed to his home country, cannot simply be attributed to superior spending power. Based on original sources, and containing many previously unpublished images, Pauline Rose's book explores the reasons for Moore's fame in America, and the construction of his American persona. An autonomous, creative genius was a seductive and popular idea for the Americans, a perception encouraged by the photographs, films and writings of him in the press. The impact of Moore's presence was likely even stronger precisely because he did not fulfil the expected traits of either the modern artist or the modern celebrity.

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