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0007554
Author/Editor: WITTKOWER Rudolf.
Publisher: Phaidon
Place Published: London
Year: 1955
Date & Collation: x,255pp.Illus.Bibliog.
Description: Study of Bernini, which opens with Henry Moore's 1951 quotation: Truth to material should not be a criterion of the value of a work otherwise a snowman made by a child would have to be praised at the expense of a Rodin or a Bernini."
Also in second edition 1966: xi286pp.Illus.Bibliog."
Also in second edition 1966: xi286pp.Illus.Bibliog."
0003853
Author/Editor: WITTKOWER Rudolf.
Publisher: University of Glasgow Press
Place Published: Glasgow
Year: 1974
Date & Collation: 20pp.
Description: W.A. Cargill Memorial Lectures in Fine Art, 3. Text of lecture delivered by Professor Wittkower on 4 February 1971, with notes in margin of slides used to illustrate the talk. Henry Moore is mentioned briefly as primarily a carver, tied to an ancient tradition, both in thought and technique. He is quoted on visualizing three-dimensional form; and a slide was shown of a 1944 carving.
0002453
Author/Editor: WITTKOWER Rudolf.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place Published: London
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 288pp.Illus.Bibliog.
Description:
Paperback edition of 0003043 without the dust jacket illustration.
The illustrations depict three stages in the working of the Northampton Madonna and Child, 1943-1944 Hornton stone. With a brief text on Moore as a direct carver in stone. Also quotes Moore's opinions briefly on Rodin and Michelangelo, and on Brancusi.
0003043
Author/Editor: WITTKOWER Rudolf.
Publisher: Allen Lane
Place Published: London
Year: 1977
Date & Collation: 288pp(184 illus).Bibliog.
Description: Based on series of lectures Rudolf Wittkower gave while Slade Professor of Fine Arts before his death in 1971.
245,253,256-259(3 illus) Henry Moore.
The illustrations, one of which is repeated on the back of the dust jacket, depict three stages in the working of the Northampton Madonna and Child, 1943-1944 Hornton stone. With a brief text on Moore as a direct carver in stone. Also quotes Moore's opinions briefly on Rodin and Michelangelo, and on Brancusi.
For 1979 paperback edition see 0002453.
245,253,256-259(3 illus) Henry Moore.
The illustrations, one of which is repeated on the back of the dust jacket, depict three stages in the working of the Northampton Madonna and Child, 1943-1944 Hornton stone. With a brief text on Moore as a direct carver in stone. Also quotes Moore's opinions briefly on Rodin and Michelangelo, and on Brancusi.
For 1979 paperback edition see 0002453.