Henry moore in america: the role of journalism and photography

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PROOF 1 2 3 4 5 6Rose, “Henry Moore in America: The Role of Journalism and Photography,” Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture, 1945–1975 (Getty, 2011)32 Henry Moore in America: The Role of Journalism and PhotographyPauline RoseIn 1946, after viewing Henry Moore’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, an American reviewer visited the sculptor at home in Hertfordshire, England, and described the “deep plea-sure of knowing the man himself—kind, sincere to a rare degree in a veiled soci-ety, alive with ideas and strength, undidactic, in short with all the seldom encountered marks of greatness.”1 This response to Moore was the norm among American journalists, photographers, businessmen, museum personnel, archi-tects, and philanthropists, and it was among such influential individuals that Moore would find support in the decades following World War II. The reference to a “veiled society” is of interest because, in the context of the ensuing Cold War, the very...

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