Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Préhistoire: L'Envers du Temps
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Bib. Number0024044
Préhistoire: L'Envers du Temps
Author/EditorLABRUSSE Rémi
PublisherHazan
Place PublishedParis
Year2019
Date & Collation240pp.illus.
LanguageFrench
More InformationMonograph on the influence of prehistory on art.
p.147: mentioned in a discussion of images of apocalypses and the post-apocalyptic in art, alongside Tacita Dean, Robert Smithson, and Max Ernst.
p.155: mentions of Moore's visits to the caves of Altamira and the valley of Vézère in the 1930s, alongside other artists who visited these sites: de Staël, Paalen and Miro to Altamira; Brassaï, Giacometti, Tal-Cat, Motherwell and Francenthaler to Vézère.
p.156: mentions of Moore's drawings of the Venus of Grimaldi. Study after 'Venus of Grimaldi' 1926 illus. (fig.119).
p.200: discussion of British artists making art inspired by neolithic sites in the UK, with faching illus. of Moore's Stonehenge I 1972 (fig.156).