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0007164
Pre-Naturalism.
Author/Editor: BERGER John.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1959
Date & Collation: (30 May)..
Description: Observations on U.N.E.S.C.O. Reclining Figure, 1957-1958 travertine marble, on display at Marlborough Galleries (0007062). See 0002446 for reprint and annotation in Permanent Red: essays in seeing.
0007285
Humanists and wild ones.
Author/Editor: HENDY Philip.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1958
Date & Collation: (13 Dec) 853.
Description: Full-page review of Heads, Figures and Ideas (See 0007315). Discusses drawings for the U.N.E.S.C.O. Reclining Figure, 1957-1958 travertine marble: a universal noble thing. Constructed as if by the forces of nature..." Quotations are taken from the book and Hendy discusses the concept of truth to material and of humanism in Moore's work."
0007284
Round London.
Author/Editor: BERGER John.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1958
Date & Collation: (5 July)..
Description: Includes a brief discussion on Falling Warrior, 1956-1957 bronze at Marlborough (See 0007205): tragically moving...the most vulnerable sculpture Moore has made.""
0012169
What sort of monument?
Author/Editor: SPURLING John.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (12 Sept)..(2 illus).
Description: Obituary notice, commenting on Moore's sculptural career: acquire your basic skills put them immediately to the service of your own particular obsessions and predilections; develop your technique; refine your powers of observation; improve your knowledge of yourself and the world; think study and above all practise.""
0005282
Temple art.
Author/Editor: MELVILLE Robert.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1968
Date & Collation: (26 July)..
Description: Short review of the Tate Gallery exhibition (See 0005063) dwelling mainly on the sources of influence on Moore's work.
0005284
Photographic commentaries.
Author/Editor: MELVILLE Robert.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1968
Date & Collation: (29 Nov) 764.
Description: Includes a review of Henry Spencer Moore (See 0005040) seen as a grand miscellany adding up to a biography in pictures"."
0009074
The Leicester Galleries.
Author/Editor: BELL Clive.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1941
Date & Collation: (1 Feb)..
Description: Review of Winter exhibition. Two Figures in a Shelter a gouache heightened with chalk and ink is remarkable.""
0005805
To each his own.
Author/Editor: MELVILLE Robert.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1966
Date & Collation: (2 Dec) 846.
Description: Review of six art books, including Herbert Read's Henry Moore (See 0005856), Donald Hall's Henry Moore (See 0005629) and Henry Moore on Sculpture (See 0005627). Comments on African influences, and the psychology of Moore's creativity. Donald Hall's book is seen as a light readable account of Moore's home life" and Philip James' anthology as "handsome" noting particularly Moore's early texts and comments on other artists."
0019943
Moore and the postmaster.
Author/Editor: ABDELA Lesley.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London.
Year: 2002
Date & Collation: (8 July)..
Description: Short letter referring to Wendy Holden (Diary 1 July)" about "a small chunk of cast iron sent by Moore to be turned into a gigantic sculpture" in the 1970s."
0005804
Underground.
Author/Editor: MELVILLE Robert.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1966
Date & Collation: (28 Oct)..
Description: Brief review of Moore War Drawings and Sutherland at Marlborough (See 0005670): some are as monumentally conceived as the figures in the National Gallery's Mantegna. Others assume an elongated unease that reminds one of El Greco.""
0005552
Sacred or profane.
Author/Editor: MELVILLE Robert.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: (28 July)..
Description: Review of Marlborough exhibition (See 0005369) noting dichotomy between austere front view of Torso, 1966 white marble combined with luxurious rear, and comparing it to Titian's Sacred and Profane Love.
0003975
Black power.
Author/Editor: MELVILLE Robert.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1974
Date & Collation: (3 May)..
Description: Review of Auden Poems/Moore Lithographs (See 0003805). a series of dark and mysterious lithographs." Also note on two other exhibitions containing Moore works: Masters of Graphic Art (See 0003825) An Exhibition of Contemporary British Painters and Sculptors (See 0003808)."
0003976
Art.
Author/Editor: MELVILLE Robert.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1974
Date & Collation: (20 Dec)..
Description: Includes a paragraph on Moore's exhibition at Fischer Fine Art (See 0003816). His Stonehenge is moonlit captured in impressively deep blacks and cold white light off the paper." Also Henry Moore Drawings (See 0003784) "an eloquent exercise in appreciation"."
0010032
London Diary.
Author/Editor: HALL Ruth.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: (14 July) 49.
Description: Includes a note on the controversy caused by cancelling this year's International Print Biennale in Bradford to hold the Henry Moore exhibition (See 0002722). The 28 July 1978 issue of New Statesman carried letters from Roderick THOMSON and P.W.G. LAWSON expressing some agreement, but pointing out that the expense of the Bradford exhibition was borne largely by the Henry Moore Foundation and other sponsors.
0010031
Art: Earth Father.
Author/Editor: SPURLING John.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: (7 July) 31-32.
Description: Review of Serpentine, Tate and Fischer Fine Art exhibitions (See 0002718, 0002719, 0002717, 0002728 and 0002830). He scaled down the landscape emphasised its human association and as it were earthed the whole idea of energy." Surveys Moore's influences and themes of the sculpture and drawings."
0006052
Garrulous extraverts.
Author/Editor: MELVILLE Robert.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1965
Date & Collation: (30 July)..
Description: Reviews, including Moore/Bacon (See 0005900) and Giacometti exhibitions. Compared with Giacometti Moore and Bacon seem garrulous extraverts expansive and optimistic.""
0006386
What art can encompass.
Author/Editor: FORGE Andrew.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1963
Date & Collation: (26 July) 120.
Description: Moore and Bacon at Marlborough (See 0006297) compared: Moore's timelessness his authoritative silent female warmth the acrid masculinity of Bacon's images...""
0023268
I think the dead are with us": John Berger at 88"
Author/Editor: MAUGHAN Philip
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: New York
Year: 2015
Date & Collation: 2015(5 June)9pp.(no Moore illus)
Description: Article on the life and work of John Berger. 3 In 1946 Berger enrolled at the Chelsea School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Moore. A decade later Berger referred to Moore's work as meaningless mess" in a review in the New Statesman."
0008566
Sculpture in the Park.
Author/Editor: HERON Patrick.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1948
Date & Collation: (29 May)..
Description: Review of Battersea Park exhibition (See 0008483). Of Moore's Three Standing Figures...I believe it is the greatest single work in sculpture or painting to be accomplished by an English artist in the present century.""
0004623
Strange presences.
Author/Editor: PIPER Myfanwy.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1971
Date & Collation: (2 July)..
Description: Review of Robert Melville's Henry Moore (See 0004666). In the many books that have been written about Moore the magic of creation has sometimes been lost in the catalogue of his greatness: the number and scope of his masterpieces the range of his splendid commissions and in the importance to us of his being a modern European master. Robert Melville never forgets the magic and never forgets the artist.""
0006982
A sculptor's themes.
Author/Editor: CAMPBELL Robin.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1960
Date & Collation: (20 Aug)..
Description: Appreciation of Will Grohmann's The Art of Henry Moore (See 0006851): rather rapt and uncritical"."
0006983
Ten years of Henry Moore.
Author/Editor: SYLVESTER David.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1960
Date & Collation: (3 Dec)..
Description: Review of Whitechapel Gallery exhibition (See 0006882) noting varying styles and moods, related to classical figures, natural objects, human energy.
0002057
Henry Moore: sculpture.
Author/Editor: SPURLING John.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1981
Date & Collation: (27 Nov)..
Description: Brief book review of 0001843, noting Moore's many honours, and seeing this as a special book of photographs and comments.
0006798
Moore's carvings.
Author/Editor: SYLVESTER David.
Publisher: New Statesman
Place Published: London
Year: 1961
Date & Collation: (7 July) 25.
Description: Gallery reviews column which includes a brief note on the Marlborough exhibition (See 0006668): one has the feeling that this young artist was unable to put chisel to stone without investing it with warmth and radiance.""