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Article: The wandering rocks. (Henry Moore, Royal Academy, London)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 24, 1988
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WHERE Henry Moore is concerned, statistics are needed to convey something of the vast scale of his achievement. The Royal Academy's new exhibition, three years in the planning, displays sculptures and drawings covering the whole of his 60-year career. The materials used in these include at least ten kinds of stone, three kinds of wood, reinforced concrete, bronze, lead, plaster, terracotta, tavertine, porcelain, wax crayon, watercolor, felt-tip, ink, chalk, ball. point pen and string. Moore mastered every technique of sculpture, many of painting and drawing; he wrote poems and a play. His sculptures-around 5,000 of them-are more widely distributed than those of any other ...