Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
The Materials of Sculpture.
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Bib. Number0015409
The Materials of Sculpture.
Author/EditorPENNY Nicholas.
PublisherYale University Press
Place PublishedNew Haven & London
Year1993
Date & Collationx,318pp.Illus.Bibliog.Glossary.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationStudy of the traditional materials of sculpture, with a photograph of Reclining Figure, 1929 brown Hornton stone on page 121 in the chapter Schist, Sandstone and Limestone. It has a primeval character too which owes much to the stone from which it was carved Hornton limestone an ironstone from north-west Oxfordshire rusty brown and rich yellow with hints of greyish green which with the veins and fossils embedded in it seems more essentially rocky more part of the ancient body of the earth...""