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0013530
Author/Editor: RAMSDEN E.H.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place Published: London, New York & Toronto
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: x,42pp.24 plates.Bibliog.
Description: Revised edition of essay first published 1940 (See 0013511).
21-22,Plate 14(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of Figure 1937, bird's eye marble, and short text on Moore's abstract, anthropomorphic forms. Notes his humanity, respect for materials and use of organic and primitive forms.
0009484
Author/Editor: LEE Kathryn Dean., BURCHWOOD Katharine Tyler.
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts
Place Published: New York
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: xxiii,392pp.Illus.208 plates.Bibliog.
Description: an introduction to ancient medieval and modern art with emphasis upon brevity clarity and readability of text."
357Plate 187(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of Reclining Figure 1935-1936 elm wood and passing mention in a short section: Expressionism in Germany and England."
0003667
Author/Editor: SEYMOUR Charles Jr.
Publisher: American University Press
Place Published: Washington, D.C.
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: viii,86pp.Illus.
Description: For description see 1969 reprint 0004864.
0008335
Publisher: Batsford
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: xii,244pp.Illus.Plates.
Description: Plate 21(1 illus) Henry Moore: Pit Boys at Pithead, 1942 drawing.
Reproduction from a drawing to illustrated section of literary extracts on the theme of Work.
0008341
Publisher: Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund
Place Published: Zürich
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 192pp.Illus.Text in German.
Description: Anthology of photographs, texts, works of art on the Mother and Child theme, edited by Werner BISCHOF.
34(1 illus) Henry Moore: one sculpture.
0008337
Author/Editor: RATHBUN Mary Chalmers., HAYES Bartlett H.Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place Published: New York
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 110pp.Illus.
Description: Based on exhibition Seeing the Unseeable at Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 3 Jan-10 March 1947.
41(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Women Winding Wool, 1942 drawing, Washington University, St. Louis is illustrated in a section on Shape to show how the figures...characterize in simple sculptural terms the mass and weight of the human body"."
0008343
Author/Editor: MILLER Alec.
Publisher: The Studio
Place Published: London and New York
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 176pp.205illus.Bibliog.
Description: The development of sculpture from prehistory to the present.
161-164,Illus 199(1 illus) Henry Moore.
In the chapter on the twentieth century, Miller outlines Moore's truth to material rather than visual likeness. He discusses Moore's sculptural form with reference to the writing of Herbert Read, and the photograph of Reclining Woman, 1930 green Hornton stone.
0008334
Author/Editor: Albright Art Gallery.
Publisher: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
Place Published: Buffalo, N.Y.
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 214pp.Illus.Biog.Bibliog.
Description: Introduction, full-page plates with commentary, and catalogue of 133 works by many artists.
176-177,212(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Reclining Figure, 1935-1936 elm wood, purchased 1939. Notes Moore's influences and his attention as a carver to his materials. He has concentrated...on the elementary forms and rhythms of the human body... Moore establishes his own synthesis of body-stone and stone-body by creative carving completely independent of the accidents of nature.""
0008340
Author/Editor: SADLEIR Michael.
Publisher: Constable
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: xii,424pp.Plates.
Description: Includes three list-mentions of Henry Moore in a chapter on collecting. Moore is also mentioned in passing in a three-page tribute to Sadler by John PIPER.
0008332
Author/Editor: ADAMS Hervey.
Publisher: Bell
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: viii,136pp(40 illus).
Description: grew out of a broadcast subsequently reprinted in the Listener entitled 'Getting the most out of looking about you'." There is a photograph of a 1932 Reclining Figure on page 99 in a chapter on Line Colour and Form. "Power and massiveness dominate Henry Moore's work." It is compared with the tenderness and poetry of a Rodin carving. The text notes Moore's concern for "the structural characteristics of the material"."
0008338
Publisher: Leeds University
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 80pp.Illus.
Description: Dust jacket and front-cover drawing Family Group, 1944 drawing, specially made for this anthology"."
0008344
Author/Editor: RAMSDEN E.H.
Publisher: Pleiades Books
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 42pp.63 plates.Bibliog.
Description: Short survey of modern sculpture in Europe.
19-20,etc.Plates 7-8(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Full-page photographs of Mother and Child, 1931 Burgundy stone and Reclining Figure, 1939 elm wood. Notes Moore's individuality, drawing from Primitive art rather than classical sources, and the general importance of materials used. Stresses his enduring contact with nature, man's humanity and contact with the landscape.
0008333
Author/Editor: FAULKNER Ray., ZIEGFELD Edwin., HILL Gerald.
Publisher: Holt and Company
Place Published: New York
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: xxvii,519pp(299 illus).Glossary.Bibliog.
Description: Revised edition of work published 1941 (See 0009040). For 5th edition see 0004840.
423-424,432,433(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of Reclining Figure, 1935-1936 elm wood and extensive extract from The Sculptor Speaks (See 0009196).
0008339
Author/Editor: HONEY W.B.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 157pp.20 plates.
Description: Collection of articles and broadcast talks.
122-124,Plates 10-11(2 illus) Sculpture and Modelling.
Two views of Mother and Child, 1931 Verde di Prato: the magnificent polygon of arms and shoulders eloquently encloses and protects the rounded forms within it. There is no trace of sentimental prettiness. All is marble." This in a short text on sculptural techniques and language."
0008469
Author/Editor: VENTURI Lionello.
Publisher: Hoepli
Place Published: Milan
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 70pp.249 plates.Text in Italian.
Description: 57-58,Plates 224-226(3 illus) Henry Moore.
Full-page illustrations of three Drawings 1942-1944, and a paragraph on Moore in the section on Surrealism.
0008842
Author/Editor: READ Herbert.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: 191pp.64 plates.
Description: Published in association with Faber and Faber. Revised edition of work first published 1931.
177-181 Section 82, Plate 63 (1 illus) Henry Moore.
For annotation and details of other editions see 0009325.
Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings: 3rd edition, with an introduction by Herbert Read
0008336
Author/Editor: READ Herbert
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Place Published: London
Year: 1949
Date & Collation: xlivpp(26 illus).295 plates(433 illus).Biog.Bibliog.
Description: Distributed in U.S.A. by Curt Valentin. Third revised and much enlarged edition of work first published 1944 (See 0008893), second edition 1946 (See 0008704). For fourth edition see 0007333.
viii Publisher's Note.
(Documents the changes to the illustrations, layout and contents compared to the earlier editions).
lx-x List of Owners.
xi-xxx READ Herbert. Introduction.
(Adds a short section on the consolidation of Moore's reputation and a leap forward in his creative activity since the war. Mentions briefly some new sculptures, and the sculptor's role as a public artist).
xxxii Biographical Note.
(Outline of Moore's career 1898-1948).
xxxiii-xxxviii Bibliography.
(193 entries; compiled by Hannah B. MULLER).
xxxix-xliv Essays by Henry MOORE.
(The Sculptor's Aims, Notes on Sculpture, Primitive Art. See 0008893 for original source).
Plates.
(With the frontispiece, 16 colour illustrations are included. Grouped as: Stone, Terracotta and Concrete, Wood, Stringed Figures, Metal, Sketches and Drawings).
The full-page portrait photograph of Moore on page xxxi is by Alfred Carlebach. The 26 illustrations in the preliminary pages also include photographs of historical art works.