‘Henry Moore’
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Art During the Cold War
… confrontation and East–West rivalry. The two ongoing research projects are The Modern Idol: Henry Moore in the Eastern Bloc and Holocaust and the Arts. The former examines, in the framework of an international collaboration, the exhibitions and reception of Henry Moore, a key figure of modern art, in the Eastern Bloc (partners: Alina Șerban, Bucharest, The Institute of the Present; Lujza Kotočová, Prague, Academic Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts). Past events: …
Postcards of Judit Reigl
… her trip to Chartres with her lover, the English sculptor Betty Anderson (who had studied under Henry Moore), to see the “most beautiful windows in the world”. There are accounts of them collecting snail and crab shells on the shores of Brittany, and of the couple making their living decorating a French chateau in Saint Germain-en-Laye with a series of frescoes. When necessary, they took to painting fairground scenery in Roanne. Then a commission for prehistoric frescoes in Souillac took …
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