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0019985
Author/Editor: BORGES Jorge Luis., BIOY-CASARES Adolfo.
Publisher: Allen Lane
Place Published: London.
Year: 1982
Date & Collation: 143pp.
Description: First published as Crónicas de Bustos Domecq by Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires 1967. Published in the USA by Dutton 1979. The story The Selective Eye, which had also appeared in The Antioch Review, has a passing mention of Henry Moore. For an unsuccessful exhibition by sculptor Antarctic A. Garay the critics sugarcoated the pill as much as possible alluding to Henry Moore and extolling the whole effort as praiseworthy". (Also in Borges's 'Obras Completas en Colaboración'. Buenos Aires. Emecé 1979)."
0001766
Author/Editor: HARRISON Charles.
Publisher: Allen Lane
Place Published: London
Year: 1981
Date & Collation: 416pp(166 illus).Bibliog.
Description: Published jointly with Indiana University Press (Bloomington). Includes extensive references to Moore, notably in the chapters The Development of Modernism in Sculpture" and "Unit One". There are also references to Moore and Abstraction and Surrealism. Twelve illustrations appear on pages 222-227246-247272-274328-330.
Art historical academic and natural influences bearing on Moore's work are noted together with an outline of his teaching and work in the 1920's all related to the pattern of culture embracing Epstein Hepworth and continental figures. In the Unit One chapter the additional influence of Picasso Brancusi and others "led to the investment of his compositions with a kind of psychological penumbra normally associated with figurative and evocative shapes in painting".
There are quotations from Moore's writings of the time; while the importance of figures and landscape are reiterated in the chapter entitled "The Late Thirties: Surrealism Realism Romanticism"."
Art historical academic and natural influences bearing on Moore's work are noted together with an outline of his teaching and work in the 1920's all related to the pattern of culture embracing Epstein Hepworth and continental figures. In the Unit One chapter the additional influence of Picasso Brancusi and others "led to the investment of his compositions with a kind of psychological penumbra normally associated with figurative and evocative shapes in painting".
There are quotations from Moore's writings of the time; while the importance of figures and landscape are reiterated in the chapter entitled "The Late Thirties: Surrealism Realism Romanticism"."
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.