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0002487
Publisher: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Place Published: Buffalo, N.Y.
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: (12 May-24 June).192pp.Illus.Biog and Catalogue by Steven A.NASH 171-188.Bibliog.Foreword by Robert T.BUCK.Preface by Steven A.NASH.Text by Albert E.ELSEN.
Description: Published by George Braziller (New York) as an exhibition book. Funded in part by the Henry Moore Foundation. Exhibition also at Minneapolis Institute of Arts 22 July-2 Sept 1979 and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 5 Oct-18 Nov 1979.
59 works by 35 artists. Essentially a sequel to Pioneers of Modern Sculpture exhibition held at Hayward Gallery, 1973.
46-51,70-71,139-142,184,etc(9 illus) Henry Moore.
Three Moore Sculptures 1931-1936 were exhibited.
46-51 'The Tough and Tender Figures of Henry Moore' in a chapter on 'The Figure in Interwar Modern Sculpture'.
(Notes Moore's originality and developing style through the diverse influences of Primitive art, Renaissance figures and the work of his contemporaries. Outlines his experiments in abstraction and concern for form which evolved into the Reclining Figures. The influence of Picasso particularly is noted, and the Jungian interpretation of Moore's art is mentioned together with the Landscape relationship).
70-71 In a chapter entitled 'Portraits and Evocative Head' the stylization of Moore's heads is noted, before he achieves the conviction authority and genuine mystery" of the Helmet Heads.
139-142 'The Sculptors' Response to Fascism' chapter includes an outline of Moore's political environment in Hampstead the Spanish Prisoner 1939 lithograph the Shelter drawings and the Northampton Madonna and Child 1943-1944 Hornton stone.
Brief quotations from Moore's writings are incorporated and there are other passing mentions of the artist."
59 works by 35 artists. Essentially a sequel to Pioneers of Modern Sculpture exhibition held at Hayward Gallery, 1973.
46-51,70-71,139-142,184,etc(9 illus) Henry Moore.
Three Moore Sculptures 1931-1936 were exhibited.
46-51 'The Tough and Tender Figures of Henry Moore' in a chapter on 'The Figure in Interwar Modern Sculpture'.
(Notes Moore's originality and developing style through the diverse influences of Primitive art, Renaissance figures and the work of his contemporaries. Outlines his experiments in abstraction and concern for form which evolved into the Reclining Figures. The influence of Picasso particularly is noted, and the Jungian interpretation of Moore's art is mentioned together with the Landscape relationship).
70-71 In a chapter entitled 'Portraits and Evocative Head' the stylization of Moore's heads is noted, before he achieves the conviction authority and genuine mystery" of the Helmet Heads.
139-142 'The Sculptors' Response to Fascism' chapter includes an outline of Moore's political environment in Hampstead the Spanish Prisoner 1939 lithograph the Shelter drawings and the Northampton Madonna and Child 1943-1944 Hornton stone.
Brief quotations from Moore's writings are incorporated and there are other passing mentions of the artist."