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Author/Editor: BOWNESS Alan.
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1974
Date & Collation: 16pp typescript.
Description: Text of lecture given 30 October 1974 at opening of Henry Moore Sculpture Centre, Toronto, with slides. Work produced since 60th birthday in 1958 represents culmination of Moore's achievement. Related to previous epochs in Moore's work: the early years, the 1930s, the public sculptor of the War Drawings and commissions during the 1940s and 1950s. From 1959 we see two and three part Reclining Figures, more abstract forms, and a renewed feeling for carving. Carving element is retained through the forming of plasters and polystyrene for bronze casting. Sheer size and architectural settings encourage Moore to become more abstract, but the basic humanism of his work remains. His work advances on Brancusi's simplicity in its demand for manifold interpretations. Human relationships are seen in the connection of forms in large abstract works of the 1960s and 1970s. The basic Mother and Child theme is expressed in a more personal and mysterious language, leading to the development of late-style which occurs in the greatest artists who live a full life span.
This lecture formed the basis for the Introduction to Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, Volume 4, Sculpture 1964-73 (See 0003018), and was repeated with modifications as the Philip James Memorial lecture.
This lecture formed the basis for the Introduction to Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, Volume 4, Sculpture 1964-73 (See 0003018), and was repeated with modifications as the Philip James Memorial lecture.