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0009286
Publisher: Barker
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: 41pp(2 illus).49 plates.
Description: Book on the appreciation of drawing, illustrated by works of three dozen modern artists, including six by Moore (Plates 39-44) dating between 1928 and 1933.
32-36 On sculptors' drawings and Henry Moore in particular.
Haskell explains his choice of Moore's drawings: Moore young as he is has acquired a unique position for his research his promise and his actual achievement." Moore is seen as a pioneer taking over where Gaudier-Brzeska left off. Description and comment on each drawing reproduced discuss the techniques the logical development and the relation to sculpture. Comment ranges over "drawing for the sake of drawing" to increasing "his repertoire of natural form...to suggest bulk form in the round... Already a certain deformation is creeping in... The whole has dignity solidity repose." Moore's use of wash and cross-section is noted and the drawings are discussed in sculptural terms. "Her legs must therefore support her heavy stone body."
38-41 On carving.
A conversation between Henry Moore and Arnold L. Haskell reprinted from the New English Weekly 5 May 1932 (See 0009323)."
32-36 On sculptors' drawings and Henry Moore in particular.
Haskell explains his choice of Moore's drawings: Moore young as he is has acquired a unique position for his research his promise and his actual achievement." Moore is seen as a pioneer taking over where Gaudier-Brzeska left off. Description and comment on each drawing reproduced discuss the techniques the logical development and the relation to sculpture. Comment ranges over "drawing for the sake of drawing" to increasing "his repertoire of natural form...to suggest bulk form in the round... Already a certain deformation is creeping in... The whole has dignity solidity repose." Moore's use of wash and cross-section is noted and the drawings are discussed in sculptural terms. "Her legs must therefore support her heavy stone body."
38-41 On carving.
A conversation between Henry Moore and Arnold L. Haskell reprinted from the New English Weekly 5 May 1932 (See 0009323)."