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The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture - An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple
Author/Editor: EVANS Jean M.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place Published: New York
Year: 2012
Date & Collation: xii.278pp.Illus.Notes.Bibliography.Index.
Description: University text book examining sculpture created during the Early Dynastic period (2900-2350BC). Moore is referred to in a chapter titled Art History, Ethnography and Beautiful Scultpure. 64 archaeologist, Frankfort, seeks to establish affinities between ancient and modern art. Moore is listed alongside Hepworth, Brancusi and Calder. 66-67 and 69 art historian, Wilenski, juxtaposes a Sumerian statue of Gudea with Moore's Mother and Child 1931 Burgundy stone, (LH100), with illustrations. Moore considered Sumerian sculpture to contain bull-like grandeur and held-in energy". 90 discusses the shifting aesthetics of museum display. Moore is quoted in reference to diplays in ethnographic ans natural history museums - "very fine small peices . . . exhibited in a crowded collection can eaily be overlooked". Hardback."
0023210
The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture - An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple
Author/Editor: EVANS Jean M.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place Published: New York
Year: 2012
Date & Collation: xi.278pp.Illus.Notes.Bibliography.Index.
Description: Book examining the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900-2350BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. 64 Passing reference to Moore in relation to Henri FRANKFORT, field director of the Iraq Expedition 1930. 66-67 British art historian, R.H. WILENSKI wrote that Sumerian statues still 'have meaning four thousand years later because the meaning of their form is permanent in kind'. In The Meaning of Modern Sculpture (1932) WILENSKI juxtaposed Moore's Mother and Child 1931 Burgundy stone (LH 100) with a statue of Gudea in the British Museum, both illustrated. 69 reference to Moore in relation to Leon Underwood's restoration of Gudea. 90 In reference to the British Museum and cluttered shelves and overcrowded cases, Moore observed in 1935 very fine pieces ... exhibited in a crowded collection can easily be overlooked"."