Lines and Lives: Some Poetic Inventions of Modernism at the Henry Moore Institute

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Lines and Lives: Some Poetic Inventions of Modernism

17 November 2023

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Part of the Henry Moore Institute Research Library’s Special Collections, this display takes the Archive of Anton Lesseman and builds from this entry point to reveal the oppositions and harmonies of the Modernist movement.

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