Henry Moore Exhibition in Japan.

0004881 Moore (Henry) Exhibition in Japan;Catalogues (Henry Moore Exhibition in Japan);Japanese selection (Henry Moore Exhibition in Japan);Tokyo;DUKE R.A.H.;KOBAYASHI Yukio;TANAKA Kanae;THOMPSON David; British Council; Mainichi Newspapers Henry Moore Exhibition in Japan. National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo British Council exhibition. Catalogue published by Mainichi Newspapers. Incorporates some statements by Henry Moore in Japanese only. 65 Sculptures 1922-1969 and 32 Drawings 1928-1961. Thompson stresses the range and vitality of the works on exhibit. The forms and imagery are outlined: Yet at some level more primitive than that of conscious recognition we respond to such forms in our own bodies. We become aware of forces which can be both exhilarating and frightening." Early and later works are compared and the shelter drawings figures are seen as "in a sense both the unborn in the womb and the dead in their winding-sheets". The work of the 1960s acquired "a new sense of the tremendous" being disturbing ambiguous confident and on an enormous scale. Bones became a new major influence ranging from the turbulent to the graceful and serene."