Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Paroles d'Artistes: De la Renaissance à Sophie Calle [Artists' Words: From the Renaissance to Sophie Calle]
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Bib. Number0024043
Paroles d'Artistes: De la Renaissance à Sophie Calle [Artists' Words: From the Renaissance to Sophie Calle]
Author/EditorEdited by BLANC Jan
PublisherCitadelles & Mazenod
Place PublishedParis
Year2012
Date & Collation504pp.illus.
LanguageFrench
More InformationCoffee table book about artists in their own words, from the Renaissance to the modern day.
pp.416-419 on Moore.
One-paragraph introduction to Moore as an artist, mentioning non-European art, Vision and Design, the collections of the British Museum, and the works of Gaugin as formative influences.
Quotes Moore discussing King and Queen 1952-53 and the sculpture park at Glenkiln, with two illus. of the work at Glenkiln. Mentions of the Middelheim cast.
p.418: full page illus of Sculpture and Red Rocks 1942.
p.428: on Mark Rothko. Draws comparison between the inspirations of Moore and Rothko, who was influenced by Egyptian and Near Eastern art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.