Paroles d'Artistes: De la Renaissance à Sophie Calle [Artists' Words: From the Renaissance to Sophie Calle]

0024043 Paroles d'Artistes: De la Renaissance à Sophie Calle

[Artists' Words: From the Renaissance to Sophie Calle] Citadelles & Mazenod Paris

Coffee 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.