Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Eight European Artists; photographed and edited by Felix H. Man, with original contributions by the eight artists.
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157-183 MOORE Henry.
(Sixteen photographs of the artist and his work, a biographical note, and Some Notes on Space and Form in Sculpture in the artist's handwriting and printed in three languages. This text was reprinted in 0007557 and 0005627. See also 00010242. "One distorts the forms in order to create space... At one time the holes in my sculpture were made for their own sakes. Because I was trying to become conscious of spaces in the sculpture, I made the hole have a shape in its own right, the solid body was encroached upon, eaten into, and sometimes the form was only the shell holding the hole. Recently I have attempted to make the forms and the spaces (not holes) inseparable, neither being more important than the other... Force, Power, is made by forms straining or pressing from inside. Knees, elbows, forehead, knuckles, all seek to press outwards. Hardness, projection outwards, gives tension, force, and vitality... Sculpture in the open air looks smaller than when seen in the enclosed spaces of indoors... Sculptors' drawings.... Any wash, smudge, shading, anything breaking the tyranny of the flat plane of the paper, opens up a suggestion, a possibility of Space").
The other seven artists featured in the book: Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Graham Sutherland.
Bib. Number0007728
Eight European Artists; photographed and edited by Felix H. Man, with original contributions by the eight artists.
Place PublishedLondon, Melbourne, Toronto
Year1954
Date & Collation244pp.Illus.Biog.Introduction by Graham GREENE and Jean CASSOU.Foreword by Felix H.MAN.Text in English, French and German.
LanguageEnglish/German/
More InformationFrench title: Huit Artistes Européens. German title: Acht Europäische Künstler.157-183 MOORE Henry.
(Sixteen photographs of the artist and his work, a biographical note, and Some Notes on Space and Form in Sculpture in the artist's handwriting and printed in three languages. This text was reprinted in 0007557 and 0005627. See also 00010242. "One distorts the forms in order to create space... At one time the holes in my sculpture were made for their own sakes. Because I was trying to become conscious of spaces in the sculpture, I made the hole have a shape in its own right, the solid body was encroached upon, eaten into, and sometimes the form was only the shell holding the hole. Recently I have attempted to make the forms and the spaces (not holes) inseparable, neither being more important than the other... Force, Power, is made by forms straining or pressing from inside. Knees, elbows, forehead, knuckles, all seek to press outwards. Hardness, projection outwards, gives tension, force, and vitality... Sculpture in the open air looks smaller than when seen in the enclosed spaces of indoors... Sculptors' drawings.... Any wash, smudge, shading, anything breaking the tyranny of the flat plane of the paper, opens up a suggestion, a possibility of Space").
The other seven artists featured in the book: Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Graham Sutherland.