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Un Monumento al Momento: Medardo Rosso e le Origini della Scultura Contemporanea [A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the Origin of Contemporary Sculpture]

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Un Monumento al Momento: Medardo Rosso e le Origini della Scultura Contemporanea [A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the Origin of Contemporary Sculpture]
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Bib. Number0024067

Un Monumento al Momento: Medardo Rosso e le Origini della Scultura Contemporanea [A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the Origin of Contemporary Sculpture]

Author/EditorHECKER Sharon
PublisherJohan & Levi
Year
Date & Collationillus.i
LanguageItalian
More InformationMonograph on the sculptor Medardo Rosso. Several mentions of Moore, including (pp.145-148) discussion of his sculpture Suckling Child 1927, with illustrations of the 1927 and 1930 Suckling Child (LH 42 and LH 96) sculptures. p.13: Moore listed (along wiith Umberto Boccioni, Constantin Brancusi, and Alberto Giacometti) as a young artist who admired Rosso's reveolutionary ideas. p.16 mentions Rosso's photography and use of fragmentary figures as influences on Moore. p.250 quotes Moore on Rosso, naming him as along with Rodin one of the sculptors to lead the way for modern sculpture.