Drawing in the Dark

Henry Moore's Coalmining Commission

Drawing in the Dark
Chris Owen
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Hardback
h250 x 190mm - 168pg
2 Nov 2022 UK
9781848226036
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In contrast to Henry Moore' s well-known drawings depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz, little has been written about how this son of a Yorkshire coalminer tackled his second commission from the War Artists' Advisory Committee in 1941; drawing men in ' Britain' s underground army' , the miners of Wheldale colliery. Redressing this imbalance, Chris Owen' s comprehensive account of the coalmining drawings explores every aspect of the commission - from Moore' s return to his childhood home and the challenges associated with ' drawing in the dark' to the significant influence of the project on Moore' s later work, including the Warrior and Helmet Head sculptures, and his little-known illustrations to W. H. Auden' s poetry. With illustrations drawn from Moore' s rich body of sketches and finished drawings, along with press photographs recording the commission and a range of contextual material, text and images combine to present the definitive study of this impressive body of work.
Chris Owen studied History of Art at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and taught in the Cambridge University History of Art Department, before embarking on a career lecturing in further and higher education. After a number of academic posts, he joined Anglia Ruskin University as Head of the Cambridge School of Art in 2011. Since 2019, he has focussed on research into the history of twentieth-century British art.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781848226036
Published: 2 Nov 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 250mm
Width: 190mm
Pages: 168

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