Reclining Figure: Festival Reclining Figure: Festival Reclining Figure: Festival (LH 293) is a bronze sculpture by English artist Henry Moore, commissioned by the Arts Council in 1949 for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The sculpture can be viewed as an abstraction of a reclining female human figure, resting on two arms, with a small head. By 1949, Moore was already recognised as Britain's greatest living sculptor, having won the prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948. The Arts Council suggested that a family group would be appropriate for its commission, based on the festival theme of "discovery", but Moore decided
Religious and Theological Abstracts (1958-, Myerstown, PA), "Religion Index One" (1949-, Evanston, IL), and "The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index" (1930-, Catholic Library Association) often become de facto standards against which many librarians measure their collections. If a journal is indexed by one of these services, it becomes important on the grounds that the index service provides access points to the information contained in the articles themselves. A guide to library research stated that "religion has its primary indexes in "Religion Index One", "Religion Index Two", "Religious and Theological Abstracts", and a few other such titles." Religious and Theological Abstracts Religious and Theological Abstracts