People from Castleford - Mark Byford, Henry Moore, Gareth Ellis, Mal Reilly, Peter Robinson, Bert Jepson, Stan Kielty, Paul Anderson, Danny Orr (Paperback)

Chapters: Mark Byford, Henry Moore, Gareth Ellis, Mal Reilly, Peter Robinson, Bert Jepson, Stan Kielty, Paul Anderson, Danny Orr, Brett Ferres, Mark Aston, Jonny Hepworth, Les Dyl, John Kear, Joe Westerman, Viv Nicholson, Walter Lynch, John Harman, John Illingworth, Richard Stoker, Steve Payne, Nicky Saxton, Liam Watts, Paul Bonson, Peter Broughton, Gill Isles, Andrew Townsley, Sammy Gledhill. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 96. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace, Yorkshire. Moore was born in Castleford, the son of a mining engineer. He became well-known through his larger-scale abstract cast bronze and carved marble sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom. His ability in later life to fulfil large-scale commissions made him exceptionally wealthy. Yet he lived frugally and most of the money he earned went towards endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts. Moore was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, to Mary Baker and Raymond Spencer Moore. His mining engineer father was of Irish origin and became under-manager of the Wheldale colliery in Ca...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=551732