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Reviews

Henry Moore

Nigel Halliday

Tate Britain
Until 8 August

The curators of this exhibition have an overt agenda. They argue that the huge popularity of Henry Moore after WWII domesticated his work blinding us to his dark side. They want to show that his oeuvre was, as Bryan Robertson says, 'anything but gentle'.

It took me a while to be convinced of the argument, partly because it depends on the commentary rather than the works. The exhibition itself contains many of the ...

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