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The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds is currently installing new exhibitions. The galleries will reopen from 22 November with The Traumatic Surreal. The library, archive and shop are open as normal.

New library acquisitions: Autumn 2024

4 November 2024

Cover of the books Eva Wipf: Seismograf In Nacht Und Licht and Archive of Dreams: A Surrealist Impulse.

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Cover of the book Anish Kapoor: Untrue Unreal.

Cover of the book Anne Hardy: Survival Spell.

Cover of the book Archive of Dreams: A Surrealist Impulse.

Cover of the book Avant-Garde and Liberation: Contemporary Art and Decolonial Modernism.

Cover of the book Before Behind Between Above Below.

Cover of the book Lex Morgan Lancaster: Dragging Away - Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art.

Cover of the book Eva Wipf: Seismograf In Nacht Und Licht.

Cover of the book For What it's Worth: Value Systems in Art Since 1960.

Cover of the book Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century.

Cover of the book Humane Ecology: Eight Positions.

Cover of the book Ireland: the Matter of Monuments.

Cover of the book Abi Shapiro: Kim Lim - Space, Rhythm & Light.

Cover of the book Liam Gillick: Filtered Time - Reflections on the Pergamonmuseum.

Cover of the book Magali Reus: red Roses.

Cover of the book Magdalena Abakanowicz: Writings and Conversations.

Cover of the book Iris Moon: Melancholy Wedgwood.

Cover of the book Sunlight - Roger Ackling.

Cover of the book Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski: Ronald Moody - Sculpting Life.

Cover of the book Shilpa Gupta: Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission.

Cover of the book Termite Economies by Nicholas Mangan.

Cover of the book Constance Classen: The Museum of the Senses - Experiencing Art and Collections.

Cover of the book Tim Etchells: Let's Pretend None of this Ever Happened.

Our collecting over the autumn season focused on surrealist sculptural traditions by post-war women artists in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, ahead of our major exhibition opening in November.

We have been checking the library holdings and adding books about artists who feature in our forthcoming show The Traumatic Surreal. You can now find publications about Eva Wipf (1929-78), best known for her shrine like objects, and Renate Bertlmann (b.1943), a leading Austrian feminist avant-garde visual artist, alongside an extensive selection of books about the surrealist object.

Our thanks go to the curators of the exhibition These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture for sending the catalogue of the show for the library. Olivia Bax did much of the research for the exhibition and catalogue in the library during her Research Fellowship at the Institute last year. Hoyland’s ceramic sculpture will be on show in our Study Galley in November ahead of the touring group exhibition in Sheffield next year.

We’re also delighted to receive the catalogue for the exhibition Roger Ackling: Sunlight, which was held at Norwich Castle Museum and Gallery this summer. The exhibition will be travelling to our galleries next year, and will include a selection of works from the Leeds Sculpture Collection and Archive of Sculptors’ Papers.