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0022291
Author/Editor: TRETT Mary., HOGGETT Richard
Publisher: Halsgrove House
Place Published: Somerset
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 160pp.illus.bibliography
Description: Book charting the history of Norfolk coastal town. Mention of Moore pages 142-43; one illus shows Mr and Mrs Moore on the beach at Happisburgh with Hepworth et al. Text notes the location of the group's rented holiday home. Mention of ironstone pebbles. See also 0021363.
0022289
Author/Editor: STOBART Jane
Publisher: A&C Black Publishers
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 144pp.illus.
Description: Book providing inspiring images from a selection of artist's sketchbooks. Two Moore illus:
Page 4 Thirteen Ideas for Sculpture 1937 drawing, (HMF 1364).
Page 39 Textile Design: Reclining Figures 1943 drawing, (HMF 1310).
Mention of influence of Moore's drawing techniques in section, pages 68-73, on Stobart's own drawing practice.
0022269
Author/Editor: FIELD Geoffrey G.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place Published: Oxford
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: x.405pp.illus.index
Description: Scholarly history of the British working class in the Second World War. Focus on Moore, pages 67-69, with illus of Moore's Shelter drawing Tube Shelter Perpsective: The Liverpool Street Extension 1941 drawing, (HMF 1801). Field states, page 68, Moore's drawings make no special reference to class, community, or nation, nor do they capture the cluttered, interactive gregariousness of shelter life. Contains Moore quote from London's Burning, see 0016052.
0022294
Publisher: Mougins Museum of Classical Art
Place Published: France
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 356pp.illus.
Description: English language book to French museum of Classical antiquities. One Moore illus:
page 340 shows Reclining Nude 1980 drawing, (HMF 80(247)).
Accompanying text provides overview of Moore's encounters with Greek sculpture and his lifelong passion for drawing. The museum, established in 2008, houses the collection of Christian Levett, a British investment manager.
0022117
Author/Editor: KING Maxine E
Publisher: King Gifford
Place Published: Hertfordshire
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 28pp.illus.
Description: Book surveying the sculptural work of Moore's former assistant, John Farnham. Introductory essay outlining Farnham's career by Maxine E. King. Text includes reference to Farham using Moore's technique of pressing clay around an object and filling the cavity with plaster.
0022129
Author/Editor: BLACKWOOD Jonathan
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Place Published: Surrey
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: ix.134pp.illus.index.
Description: Book, published in association with The Henry Moore Foundation, with extended essay text and complete catalogue of the artist's sculptural work. List mentions of Moore throughout. Notable reference to Moore, pages 35-36, refers to a handwritten diatribe, discovered during conservation work in 1991, hidden by Skeaping in 1933 within his wooden sculpture The Horse. The remaining fragments of the note, expressing Skeaping's personal opinion on fellow artists, including Moore and Hepworth, are reproduced within the book Material Matters - The Conservation of Modern Sculpture, see 0018759.
0022127
Author/Editor: PHILLIPS Sam
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
Place Published: New York
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 245pp.illus.index
Description: US edition. Guide to London's art galleries. List mentions throughout. One illus:
Page 162 shows cut-out of Moore's Recumbent Figure 1938 green Hornton stone, (LH 191) in section on Tate Modern. Also mentions of three other Moore works within accompanying text. See also 0022128.
0022128
Author/Editor: PHILLIPS Sam
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 245pp.illus.index
Description: UK edition. Guide to London's art galleries. List mentions throughout. One illus:
Page 162 shows cut-out of Moore's Recumbent Figure 1938 green Hornton stone, (LH 191) in section on Tate Modern. Also mentions of three other Moore works within accompanying text. See also 022127.
0022200
Author/Editor: ALBECHTSEN Nicky., SOLANKE Fola
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 304pp.illus.index
Description: Fabric covered book on the subject of scarves, including artist designed fabric squares. Highly illustrated. Scant mention of Moore; list mention, page 46, in connection to Zika Ascher; also listed as artist having been commissioned by James Cleveland Bell to design for Horrockses Ltd, see page 288. No Moore illus.
0022133
Author/Editor: VIEJO-ROSE Dacia
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Place Published: Brighton
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: xxvi.300pp.illus.
Description: Book exploring the role of cultural heriage in post-conflict reconstruction of Spain, with particular reference to Gernika. One Moore illus:
page 177, fig. 5.17 shows Large Figure in a Shelter 1985-86 bronze, (LH 652c).
Two other references to Moore and this sculpture.
0022297
Author/Editor: BLACK Jonathan
Publisher: John Bunting Foundation
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 122pp.illus.
Description: Heavily illustrated book on the life and works of sculptor John Bunting. References to Moore throughout; particularly to Bunting's 1949 visit to Perry Green, page 20-21, which carries illus of Moore's Claydon Madonna and Child 1948-49 Hornton stone, (LH 270) and Northampton Madonna and Child 1943-44 Hornton stone. Discussion of the influence of these two sculptures seen in a reglious context. Pages 85-86, discussion of the influence of Moore's Reclining Figure 1929 brown Hornton Stone, (LH 59). Page 91 contains quote from a Bunting letter to Francesca Fraser-Darling, dated 16 September 1986, comparing Bunting's feelings for Moore and Leon Underwood. Pages 112-114 reproduce Bunting's 1953 essay An Open Letter to Henry Moore, first published in Essays and Lectures on Religious Studies, 1950-56.
0022144
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Place Published: Surrey
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 208pp.illus.glossary.chronology.bibliography.index.
Description: Monograph on Hepworth's plaster works published on the occasion of the opening of The Hepworth Wakefield gallery. Edited by Dr. Sophie Bowness with contributions from Simon WALLIS, Frances GUY, Gordon WATSON, David CHIPPERFIELD, Jackie HEUMAN and Tessa JACKSON. Mentions of Moore throughout, with the following of greater interest:
Page 11: Brief mention of the acquisition of Moore's Reclining Figure in 1938. Mention of Ernest Musgrave.
Page 31: Bowness makes distinction between the working methods of Hepworth and Moore.
Page 36: Quote from Hepworth to Ben Nicholson; The reason Henry Moore and I do good bronzes is because we are carvers.
Page 55: Notes Hepworth's concerns that large scale Moore bronze sculptures were monopolising the Morris Singer foundry. Page 57 shows illustration of Moore's Sheep Piece 1970-71 bronze (LH 627) at the foundry with Hepworth's figures from Conversation with Magic Stones.
0022130
Author/Editor: TURNER Barry
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 288pp.illus.index.bibliography
Description: Book published to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. Mainly list mentions of Moore; significant aprocryphal tale, page 193, of young boy getting his head stuck between the legs of Moore's Reclining Figure: Festival 1951 bronze, (LH). Quote from private papers of Gerald BARRY. No illus.
0022131
Author/Editor: MURRAY Philipa
Publisher: Council of Trustees of National Gallery of Victoria
Place Published: Melbourne
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 188pp.illus.
Description: Small paperback sized historical guide to National Gallery of Victoria collection. No index. One Moore illus:
page 99 Draped Seated Figure 1958 bronze, (LH 428).
0022142
Publisher: Gascoyne Holdings Press
Place Published: Hertfordshire
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 158pp.illus.index.
Description: Book, edited by the present Marchioness of Salisbury, of collected essays by various experts and member of the Hatfield House staff telling the story of Hatfield House to the present day. Includes Henry Moore in Hertfordshire, pages 97-105, by Anita Feldman. Expands on text published in Moore at Hatfield exhibition catalogue, see 0022051. Focus on Moore works in landscape and influence of Hertfordshire countryside on development of sculptural works and drawing practices. Also provides overview of exhibition at Hatfield House. Illustrated with images of the exhibition and biographical archive photos of Moore at Perry Green.
0022204
Author/Editor: HERSH Sally
Publisher: Robert Hale
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 208pp.illus.index
Description: Book which provides step-by-step instructions for modelling, carving and casting featuring reference to the author's own sculpture. Highly illustrated with useful images. Contains reference to other sculptor's technique, including Moore, page 69; section on the importance of building a collection of ideas. One Moore illus shows biographical image of Moore at work within the Bourne Maquette Studio.
0022216
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd.
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 80pp.illus.glossary.index
Description: Practical art book aimed at middle school children. Provides introductory text on 14 masterpieces with accompanying workshop projects. Page 66-67 shows Moore's Large Reclining Figure 1984 fibreglass, (LH 192b) at Kew gardens, under the title Lumps and bumps. Accompanying biographical text and supporting images show Family Group maquette and drawing. Following pages gives step-by-step instruction on sculpting a reclining figure from clay.
0022227
Author/Editor: BERNIER Rosamond
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Place Published: New York
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 293pp.illus.index
Description: Autobiography of sorts in form of memoir by art journalist and former editor of L'Oeil. Divided into chapters describing encounters with great and good of the Art, Photographic and Music world. Pages 179-185 describe various meetings with Moore, including 24-hours spent at Forte dei Marmi in summer 1967, which included an impromptu interview in the sea, see John Hedgecoe photo included. Text includes detailed description of Moore's passion for Rodin's Walking Man. An image of Bernier lecturing on the subject of Moore at the Metropolitan Museum, 1972 is also reproduced.
0022228
Author/Editor: HARRIES Susie
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: xii.866pp.illus.index
Description: Definitive biography of the German-born critic who transformed the way the British look at art and architecture. References to Moore througout, with significant mentions as follows;
Page 232 - notes Pevsner and Moore amongst list of attendees at a farewell dinner given in honour of Walter Gropius at the Trocadero, Piccadilly, 9 March 1937.
Pages 352-353 - dicussion on Pevsner's positive review of Moore's Shelter Sketch Book.
Page 552 - Footnote quotes section of a letter from Pevsner to Moore, dated 5 August 1958, in which Pevsner writes on behalf of the Historic Places Trust, Wellington, New Zealand, where Pevsner recommends that Moore site a sculpture in a remote location akin to Glenkiln.
Page 730 - quotes from a letter from Pevsner to Moore, dated 9 August 1976, which refers to a 'doodle' Pevsner acquired at an Arts Council meeting in 1959.
0022206
Author/Editor: CHAPMAN Rob
Publisher: Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 441pp.illus.index.bibliography
Description: Biography of Pink Floyd musician. Mention of Moore, page 16, within excerpt on visit to the O'Connell family at The Chase, Perry Green. Includes photograph of Ella O'Connell. No Moore illus.
0022232
Author/Editor: SCHMIDT Philip Peter
Publisher: Vacat
Place Published: Potsdam
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 175pp.illus
Description: German language book of interviews with artists. Incorporates transcript of Schmidt's interview with Moore in 1981 (See 0010171). Two Moore illus: Page 63 Large Divided Oval: Butterfly 1985-86 bronze, (LH 571b). Part of this image is used to illustrate the front and rear covers. Page 52 shows biographical image of Moore.
0022230
Publisher: Bouvier
Place Published: Bonn
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 314pp.index
Description: German language book of collected essays. Front cover features installation view of exhibition room 13 at Documenta, 1955, Kassel, see 0007579. Image shows Moore's Three Standing Figures 1953 bronze, (LH 322) and King and Queen 1952-53 bronze, (LH 350). Text contains one list mention of Moore.
0022231
Author/Editor: COLLOT Michel
Publisher: ACTES SUD / ENSP
Place Published: France
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 283pp.illus.
Description: French language book divided by chapter. Features one Moore illus: Figure 27: Three Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975, (LH 655). Discussion on Moore, pages 163-164 in chapter La Troisiéme Dimension Du Paysage - Sculpture. No index.
0022203
Author/Editor: BAVERSTOCK Alison
Publisher: Prestel
Place Published: London
Year: 2011
Date & Collation: 46pp.illus.glossary
Description: Generic picture based knowledge book for younger children. Pages 20-23 feature entry for Moore; contains biographical information as well as two illus:
King and Queen at Glenkiln
Three Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975 bronze, (LH 655).
Brief accompanying text for each illus poses a set of thought provoking questions.
Text states Moore's long career offers us a series of work that stretches, toffee-like, between pressure points. the liens become simpler, the spaces larger, but their impact never lessens.