Henry Moore, Seen From Many Angles

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 20, 2001| Author: Blake Gopnik | Copyright information

Tomorrow, the National Gallery of Art opens a show called "Henry Moore," a survey of more than 160 of the celebrated modern sculptor's works. Strangely, America's official showcase for this very British master turns out to be the perfect setting for his retrospective.

At home in England, Moore is such a massive name that such a show would very likely be blandly celebratory, with reactions to it divided between worshipful genuflection and Oedipal attack. In the United States, the many w...

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