{"id":1127,"date":"2016-11-17T23:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T06:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=portfolio&p=1127"},"modified":"2016-12-06T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T23:32:37","slug":"1127","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?portfolio=1127","title":{"rendered":"Moore – Three Figures in a Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Henry Moore (1898-1986), Three Figures in a Setting<\/em> (1942)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

Henry Moore was primarily a sculptor, and has said that his sketches were meant to be \u201ca help towards making sculpture\u2026as a way of sorting out ideas and developing them.\u201d More often than not, he depicted fragmented, abstract interpretations of the female body. He also likened the female body to natural objects in his work, such as pebbles and shells, and thus powerfully represented both the human body and the natural world at once. In this piece in particular, it seems as though spotlights are shining down on the women, turning them into spectacles meant to be looked at; this brings into question the modernist debate over whether or not the female body is meant to be the object of the male gaze, and what that means for the role of women going forward.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n