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A publication on René d'Harnoncourt, director of The Museum of Modern Art for two decades (1949 - 1967), and his passion for the design and installation of museum exhibitions. Moore is referenced on page 160 in relation to his involvement in Moore's exhibition at MoMA, December 17 1946  - March 16 1947 (see 0008703).

Collection of biographical essays on artists by John BERGER, translated into Spanish by Pilar Vasquez. This volume starts with Claude Monet, and goes up to the contemporary artist Randa Mdah (b.1983). pp.90-102 is an essay on Moore, with illus. of three bronze sculptures. Mentions of Three Standing Figures, King and Queen, and Mother and Child: Block Seat.

Sixth edition of 0017525. Chapter on "Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1950" discusses Henry Moore pp.1075-77. Mentions his founding of Unit One with Herbert Read, Barbara Hepworth, and Paul Nash; Moore's studies and the early influence of African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian art on Moore's work; and the reclining figure as a dominant theme in Moore's sculpture. Illustrated with an image of Recumbent Figure 1938.

Textbook for IGCSE Art & Design course. Mentions of Moore and illustrations of his works on pp.29 & 33. p.29: Maquette for Reclining Figure: Prop is illustrated, and there is a brief biography of Moore and discussion of the themes in his work. p.33 shows the 1946 drawing Reclining Figures (HMF 2378), and Reclining Mother and Child (LH 464).

Guidebook to museums in the UK where an Art Pass entitles visitors to free or discounted entry. Includes entries for the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, the Henry Moore Studios and Gardens in Perry Green, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The Henry Moore Foundation's casts of Large Spindle Piece and Figure in a Shelter are illustrated.

Short biographies of 32 artists associated with the surrealist movement.  pp.194-200 on Henry Moore. Two illus.: photograph of Moore from early 1930s, and Four Piece Composition: Reclining Figure. Biography of Moore covers up to his expulsion from the surrealist movement in 1944 for carving the Madonna and Child for St. Matthew's Church in Northampton. Moore also mentioned twice as a friend of Eileen Agar (pp. 23, 26), and included in a list of those expelled from the surrealist movement (p.56).

A guidebook to artworks that are "worth the journey to experience in situ". Four locations are mentioned for their Henry Moore artworks; Moore is mentioned in connection with a fifth.

p.63: Hakone Open-Air Museum. illus. of Mother and Child: Block Seat.

p.106: Leeds City Art Gallery. illus.: Reclining Woman: Elbow.

p.118: Henry Moore Studios & Gardens. illus.: Large Upright Internal/External Form.

p.354: Large Two Forms in Toronto.

p.430: Nasher Sculpture Centre. Mention that William de Koonig's Seated Woman was enlarged from a maquette at the suggestion of Moore.

p.96: Mention of Moore and his mother-and-child works as an influence of Marino.

pp.147-155: Section on "Henry Moore: The Etruscans at the British Museum". Illus. of Draped Reclining Woman 1957 (compared with an Etruscan terracotta reclining figure from Chiusi) on p.151; and of Etruscan Pottery and Heads 1953-56 on p.152. Mentions of Moore's article in The Listener, Henry Moore at the British Museum, Reclining Woman 1926 (LH 31), Reclining Woman: Elbow (LH 810), Reclining Figure (LH 85), Head (LH 73), Upright Motive No.7 (LH 386), King and Queen (LH 350), and Broken Figure (LH 662).

p.180: mentions that Mimmo Palidino's Dormienti (1999) was inspired by Moore's Shelter Drawings.

A history of London in the Second World War, based around the collections of the Imperial War Museum. A section on "Sheltering London's People" includes an illustration of Women and Children in the Tube (HMF 1726).  The work of the War Artists' Advisory Committee and Moore's contributions to it are discussed in "Entertaining and Informing Londoners" (pp.169-171), and Moore's Lyre Bird illustration for the cover of Poetry London (HMF 2062) is illustrated on p.193 in "Literary London".