Henry Moore Studios & Gardens in Hertfordshire is currently closed for winter, reopening in April 2025.

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: Summer 2024

15 August 2024

Covers of the books 'Intersections : women artists/surrealism/modernism' and 'Junk art : 66 signs of neon'.

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Cover of the book 'Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940'.

Cover of the book 'Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement'.

Cover of the book 'Walking: Documents of Contemporary Art'.

Cover of the book 'Morley House: The Library'.

Cover of the book 'Cooking Cleaning Caring: Care Work in the Arts since 1960'.

Cover of the book 'Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe: A Silent Rhetoric'.

Cover of the book 'Henry Moore in Miniature'.

Cover of the book 'Laurence Edwards: Making Strange'.

Cover of the book 'Art History and Anthropology: Modern Encounters, 1870-1970'.

Cover of the book 'Baroque Sculpture in Germany and Central Europe 1600-1770'.

Cover of the book 'Birmingham's Public Art'.

Cover of the book 'Journeyman: the art of Steve Dilworth'.

Cover of the book 'De-Commemoration: Removing Statues and Renaming Places'.

Cover of the book 'Pavel Büchler: Signs of Life'.

Cover of the book 'Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism'.

Cover of the book 'Junk art: 66 signs of neon'.

Cover of the book 'Rachel Whiteread: The Mark of Trauma'.

Cover of the book 'Emilio Prini: A Visual Bibliography'.

Over the summer the library has been looking ahead to forthcoming exhibitions at the Institute and adding titles which support the programme.

The exhibition The Traumatic Surreal, which opens at the Henry Moore Institute in November this year and celebrates the centenary of Surrealism, has been a particular focus. We’ve added books that give a global perspective on Surrealism, and publications that address the relationship between women artists, Surrealism and Modernism.

The writings and editorial projects of Professor Patricia Allmer (co-curator of the exhibition) are available in the library, including her recent publication Intersections : women artists/surrealism/modernism.

We’ve also added several hard to find items to special collections. Junk Art: 66 Signs of Neon was produced to document the assemblages created by a group of artists formed following the Watts riots in Los Angeles, August 1965. We are also delighted to receive a copy of The Library, a beautiful limited edition, artists’ book produced by Morley House, which explores the experience of trauma and the role of the environment in healing. The authors, Christos Kakouros and Dinara Asadulina, spent time at the Institute to produce this publication.

Recommended reading to accompany the current exhibition is, as always, easily accessible in the library. Everyone visiting the exhibition Hany Armanious: Stone Soup is welcome to read books about the artist and his practice in the library. We’ve also added further titles about contemporary Australian sculptors to the collection – Nicholas Mangan: A World Undone is highly recommended.