Benedict Read Peyton Skipwith (2 results)
Benedict Read's Life in. . (Essay No. 77)
Wade, Rebecca, Skipwith, Peyton, Westgarth, Mark, Read, Benedict
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Published by The Fine Art Society
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Includes Seminar Guide. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> A report on Henry Moore from the School of Modelling at the Royal College of Art, dated July 1922, at the end of his…first year there, reads: 'His life work shows improvement. Design not to my liking. Is much interested in carvings.' This report by the late Victorian sculptor Francis Derwent Wood (1871-1926) seems to encapsulate the confrontation and essential divergence of the emerging modern movement in sculpture in this country with and from what had gone before. Certainly if one juxtaposes Derwent Wood's 'Atalanta' (fig 1), a bronze version of a Royal Academy exhibit of twenty years previously, set up in 1929 to commemorate the recently deceased artist, next to Moore's 'Standing Woman' of 1923 (fig 2), though both set out in their own way to represent a naked lady, formally, materially and ideologically the two works are essentially poles apart. And the canonical version of the development of modern sculpture in this country sees the emergence of the moderns (led by Moore) from a backgrou.
