Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
When Modern was Contemporary - The Roy R. Neuberger Collection
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Bib. Number0023034
When Modern was Contemporary - The Roy R. Neuberger Collection
PublisherNeuberger Museum of Art
Place PublishedNew York
Year2014
Date & Collation276pp.Illus.Index.Contributors.Copyrights and credits
LanguageEnglish
More InformationBook chronicles the work of Roy R. Neuberger (1903-2010) as collector, donor, and arts advocate. 154-157 details Moore's work. Illus of Large Two Forms 1966-69 (LH 556) and Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3 1961 bronze (LH 478). Reference to the power of associative or metaphoric thinking. Described by Bryan ROBERTSON as works that 'make us see one thing in terms of another . . . [and] contain references, which continually shift and change, to other identities, other atmospheres, and often radically different forms'. Reference to Moore linking the female body and the natural world; Moore's materials; Moore's near contemporaries in American Modernism - Edward Weston, Ruth Bernhard, Georgia O'Keeffe; 'the effect of placing an object outdoors in natural light, and a contrast between solidity and the sky's expansive emptiness'; multi-part reclining figures; abstracting the figure; sexual interpretations; Moore's view that sculpture is a 'journey' made up of many 'unexpected' views; American Minimalism and the phenomenological approach to sculpture which seeks to create for the viewer 'an encounter that embodies perception as it slowly unfolds in the real time of experience'; Micheal FRIED and his writing on minimalist sculpture in Art and Objecthood; Lincoln Center; and the Neuberger Museum of Art.