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0014876
Author/Editor: BOWEN Ron.
Publisher: Ebury Press
Place Published: London
Year: 1992
Date & Collation: 160pp.Illus.
Description: Book of techniques and appreciation with an illustration of a Moore etching on page 55 in a section Objects and Space.
0014793
Author/Editor: PHILLIPS Barty.
Publisher: Ebury Press
Place Published: London
Year: 1991
Date & Collation: 208pp.Illus.Bibliog.Chronology.Glossary.Foreword by Gill SAUNDERS.
Description: 141-142 Henry Moore.
Within a section Marrying the Fine and Applied Arts in the chapter Stylized Designs. Mentions Moore's designs for Ascher: Since Moore's drawings were in wax crayons and watercolour Ascher used a wax-resist technique to print them; it took many months to get satisfactory results. Moore's designs work well when reduced for small-scale repeats". Mentions also Moore's participation in the 1953 exhibition Painting into Textiles (See 0007961)."
0016779
Author/Editor: PRICE Bernard.
Publisher: Ebury Press
Place Published: London
Year: 1983
Date & Collation: 192pp.Illus.Plates.Bibliog.
Description: 35-36.1 Plate.Henry Moore.
Colour photograph of King and Queen, 1952-1953 bronze, and a page on Moore in the section on the North of England. Outlines his career, mentioning the monumentality of Castleford's slagheaps, and his later preference for works in the open air.
0000066
Author/Editor: MOORE Henry., HEDGECOE John.
Publisher: Ebury Press
Place Published: London
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: 208pp(201 illus).
Description: Title page reads Henry Moore. I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature". Dust jacket title- Henry Moore: my ideas inspiration and life as an artist; text by Henry MOORE photographs by John Hedgecoe. Commentary by Moore accompanies photographs by John Hedgecoe: of Moore his work his environment and influences. Some of the photographs and comments appeared in the 1968 work by Hedgecoe and Moore (See 0005040). Also includes family snap shots.
2-3 Chronology of Henry Moore's life.
6-9 HEDGECOE John. Introduction.
(Records his first visit to Much Hadham to meet Moore in 1952 his advice to Hedgecoe on the importance of study and hard work and subsequent development of friendship and photography. Comments on Moore's uncompromising dedication to his art and the conception of the two books).
10-184 Henry Moore's ideas inspiration and life as an artist.
(Recalls his early days growing up in Castleford and family life. Outlines influence of Alice Gostick recalls briefly his World War 1 experiences Leeds student life and London student life with brief mention of Hepworth Underwood William Rothenstein Epstein and others. Outlines discovery of Primitive art and importance of masks and asymmetry. Comments on sculpture: carving modelling materials artistic vision titles of art works. Commentary then ranges over teaching drawing the human form space nature and natural forms hands. Comments on Michelangelo Cézanne Religious art and some individual works like King and Queen 1952-1953 bronze. Outlines the technique of drawing producing maquettes and enlarging pieces in plaster and bronze casting. Mentions briefly Shelter drawings and Sheep sketches.)
186-207 Gallery of Sculpture: 50 black and white photographs of sculpture 1928-1979.
208 Selective list of photographs. For Australian edition see 0000067. For U.S.A. edition see 0000068. For Canadian edition see 0000069."