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0006104
Author/Editor: READ Herbert.
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Place Published: London
Year: 1964
Date & Collation: 310pp(339 illus).Bibliog.
Description: World of Art Library. Conceived as a companion to Read's Concise History of Modern Painting, this is a history of sculpture from Rodin onwards.
82-85,166-184,etc(16 illus) Henry Moore.
Outlines the influence of Moore's twentieth century predecessors, and of Primitive art, together with the materials of his carvings and the eventual dominance of bronze. Incorporates quotations from Moore's writings, and stresses his use of a buried treasury of universal shapes". Reprinted 1985 as Modern Sculpture: a concise history: see 0000446. For Japanese edition see 0005862. For German edition see 0005602. For USA edition see 0009617."