Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Ancient Knowledge, Ancient Know-How, Ancient Reasoning: Cultural Memory in Transition, from Prehistory to Classical Antiquity and Beyond
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0023655 Ancient Knowledge, Ancient Know-How, Ancient Reasoning: Cultural Memory in Transition, from Prehistory to Classical Antiquity and Beyond Harald Haarmann Cambria Press Amherst, New York
Discussion of the influence of neolithic, and in particular Cycladic, art on Moore (along with Constantin Brancusi). Comparison of Moore's Seated Woman 1958 with the fifth-millenium BC Lady of Pazardzhik. Illus. of Family Group 1948 (LH 269), Seated Woman 1958-9 (LH 440), and Maquette for UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957 (LH 414).
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