Research Catalog

Title

Bill Brandt / Henry Moore / [edited by] Martina Droth, Paul Messier.

Publication

• New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, [2020]
• New Haven : Yale University Press

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Droth, Martina
• Messier, Paul
• Yale Center for British Art, organizer, host institution.

Description

255 pages : ilustrations (some color); 34 cm

Summary

""The camera," said Orson Welles, "is a medium via which messages reach us from another world." It was the camera and the circumstances of the Second World War that first brought together Henry Moore (1898-1986) and Bill Brandt (1904-1983). During the Blitz, both artists produced images depicting civilians sheltering in the London Underground. These "shelter pictures" were circulated to millions via popular magazines and today rank as iconic works of their time. This book begins with these wartime works and examines the artists' intersecting paths in the postwar period. Key themes include war, industry, and the coal mine; landscape and Britain's great megalithic sites; found objects; and the human body. Special photographic reproduction captures the materiality of the print as a three-dimensional object rather than a flat, disembodied image on the page"--

Uniform Title

Bill Brandt (Droth and Messier)

Alternative Title

Henry Moore

Subjects

• Moore, Henry, 1898-1986
• Brandt, Bill
• Prints, English
• Photography, Artistic
• Art and photography
• Moore, Henry, 1898-1986 > Friends and associates > Exhibitions
• Brandt, Bill > Friends and associates > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Prints, English > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Sculpture > Exhibitions
• Friendship
• Art and photography > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• 1900-1999

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Accompanies the exhibition co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, shown June 5-September 13, 2020, the Hepworth, Wakefield, shown February 7-May 3, 2020, and the Sainsbury Center, University of East Anglia, shown November 22, 2020-February 28, 2021.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-250) and index.

Contents

Sculpture, photography and the printed page / Martina Droth and Paul Messier -- Photography in four dimensions / Paul Messier and Martina Droth -- Perspectives of a strange country / Martina Droth -- Catalogue / introduction essays by Martina Droth -- Portraits -- Britain at war -- Figures underground : Photojournalism in the 1940s and 1950s / Lynda Nead ; Henry Moore in the 1940s / Robert James Sutton ; Exhibiting art in wartime / Nicholas Robbins -- Afterlives of pictures : Photography at Marlborough Gallery / Audrey Sands -- Coal and Country : A strange country: Bill Brandt in Jarrow, 1937 / John Tagg -- Monoliths and landscapes : Sculpture and spatial environment / Alex Potts ; Henry Moore's and Bill Brandt's landscapes / Simon Wallis -- Perspectives of sculpture : Henry Moore and photography / Sebastiano Barassi -- The body refracted : Bill Brandt's haptic eye: perspective of nudes / Carol M. Armstrong ; Henry Moore's photo-collages / Eleanor Clayton.

Call Number

JQG 20-448

ISBN

• 9780300251050
• 030025105X

LCCN

2019045452

OCLC

1135912764

Title

Bill Brandt / Henry Moore / [edited by] Martina Droth, Paul Messier.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, [2020]

Distributor

New Haven : Yale University Press

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-250) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Droth, Martina, editor, curator.

Messier, Paul, editor.

Yale Center for British Art, organizer, host institution.

Other Title

Henry Moore

Research Call Number

JQG 20-448