Sculpture for the Hand: Herbert Read in the Studio of Kurt Schwitters

0022449 Kurt Schwitters; Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, 1961 bronze Sculpture for the Hand: Herbert Read in the Studio of Kurt Schwitters Megan R Luke Art History London

Article within Art History, journal of the Association of Art Historians. Mention of Moore throughout, including quotes from The Art of Sculpture focusing on the significance of mass in the sculptural object. Discussion and comparision in the hand modelled sculptures of Schwitters and Moore. Three illus: Page 204 Head 1930 Ironstone, (LH 87) page 242 Maquette for Standing Figure: Knfe Edge 1961 clay and plaster on bone. page 243 Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1976 bronze, (LH 482a)

235 Schwitters complains that Moore, Hepworth and Nicholson are "poor immitations of Hans Arp and Carl Buchheister".
240 Herbert READ writing on Moore and Schwitters in 1944. Read objected to the traditional sculptural plinth. Illus Head 1930 ironstone (Collection of K. Clark).
241 statement by Moore on sculpture, from 1937, cited by READ in The Art of Sculpture.
242-3 READ writes on smallness of sculpture and sculpture for the hand, reflecting on Moore's minature sculptures of the late 1920s. Illus: Maquette for Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 clay and plaster on bone. Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1976 cast 1976 bronze (LH482a).
244 Use of the found object in the practice of Moore and Schwitters. Quote by Moore on scale and magnifying found forms.
245-6 guiding prinicples for Moore and Schwitters choice of natural detritus.
248 on the duality of Schwitters aesthetic of the surface and Moore's aesthetic of ideal form.