Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Henry Moore.
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Bib. Number0009069
Henry Moore.
Author/EditorHENDY Philip.
PublisherHorizon
Place PublishedLondon
Year1941
Date & Collation21 1941(Sept) 200-206.4 plates.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationAn aesthetic appreciation of Moore's Sculpture from 1923 to 1940 on the occasion of the Temple Newsam exhibition (See 0009049). The impression is of a superhuman scale... This remains essentially a carving from a block of stone the base remaining as witness of its original proportions. And so one can take no exception to the arbitrary proportion of the great limbs to the little trunk or to the fact that the head has no particular expression only the universal vital strength which animates the whole figure... Already Moore is using the geography of a woman's body to express his passionate feeling for the earth itself... as if Moore had been Time himself with all his patience and the wind and the waters for his tools... He has moved from adventure to adventure boldly and without compromise but never erratically always logically step by step always in sympathy with his medium always a craftsman always dealing with the real thing of sculpture.""