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Living Mountains: modern stone sculpture in England 1907-37.

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Living Mountains: modern stone sculpture in England 1907-37.
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Bib. Number0017654

Living Mountains: modern stone sculpture in England 1907-37.

PublisherKettle's Yard
Place PublishedCambridge
Year
Date & Collation(7 March-26 April).80pp(17 Moore illus).Texts.Bibliog.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationSupported by the Henry Moore Foundation. Exhibition also at De la Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea) 1998(2 May-28 June).
7 HARRISON Michael. Introduction.
8-21 An Anthology of Sculptors' Writings on Stone Carving; compiled by Sophie Bowness.
(Includes five extracts from Moore's published writings on pages 16-17).
22-29 COLLINS Judith. Plastic Form and Truth to Materials. (Mentions Moore's reading of Roger Fry; Herbert Read on Moore; Natural Objects).
30-43 BOWNESS Sophie. Modernist Stone Carving in England and the Big View of Sculpture.
(Influence of historical sculpture; Moore's source materials and his own writings on the subject).
44-77 Plates.
78 Catalogue.
(47 works by Frank Dobson, Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Eric Gill, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, John Skeaping, Henry Moore (exhibits 29-40)).
Inserted in the catalogue is a 1pp leaflet Carving Mountains Symposium: 28 March 1998 event led by Stephen Cox, Robert Hopper, Carol Hodgson.
The De la Warr Pavilion private view card for 2 May 1998 carried a photograph of Moore's Half Figure, 1932 Armenian marble.