The Promotion and Reception of British Sculpture Abroad, 1948–1960: Herbert Read, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and the “Young British Sculptors”

In 1945, Europe lay in ruins. Networks needed to be established, new alliances forged. UNESCO was a child of that time, and the idea of a united, democratic Europe took wing. During the period 1948–60, Modernism was at its height, and its shape was defined in a number of important exhibitions and pu...

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Main Author: Henry Meyric Hughes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yale University 2016-07-01
Series:British Art Studies
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Online Access:http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-3/1945-1960