Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Images and Imagination: an introduction to art.
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Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 2, 1960 bronze in which human posture and rock-like forms are given an almost equal place...The two pieces of this figure work like large chunks of weathered and carved stone but the stones have been carefully placed in relation to each other like those in a Japanese garden".
Also includes Recumbent Figure 1938 green Hornton stone and Falling Warrior 1956-1957 bronze with photographs and comment on their possible sources as reclining figures: Dionysos East Pediment of the Parthenon in the British Museum; Michelangelo's Creation of Adam ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; Chacmool; Dying Warrior East Pediment of the Temple at Aegina Glyptothek Munich. Moore's use of texture and his interest in natural formations is discussed with photographs of Pink and Green Sleepers 1941 drawing and Monet's The Cliff at Etretat.
Maquette for Upright Internal-External Form 1951 bronze is also discussed in this chapter by Jerrold Maddox and in a chapter by Roberta Capers entitled Form and Meaning."
Bib. Number0014737
Images and Imagination: an introduction to art.
Author/EditorCAPERS Roberta M., MADDOX Jerrold.
PublisherRonald Press Company
Place PublishedNew York
Year1965
Date & CollationX,297pp.Illus.Plates.Bibliog.
LanguageEnglish
More Information215-230(9 illus) Moore's Two-Piece Reclining Figure: a recurrent theme in the work of Henry Moore.Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 2, 1960 bronze in which human posture and rock-like forms are given an almost equal place...The two pieces of this figure work like large chunks of weathered and carved stone but the stones have been carefully placed in relation to each other like those in a Japanese garden".
Also includes Recumbent Figure 1938 green Hornton stone and Falling Warrior 1956-1957 bronze with photographs and comment on their possible sources as reclining figures: Dionysos East Pediment of the Parthenon in the British Museum; Michelangelo's Creation of Adam ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; Chacmool; Dying Warrior East Pediment of the Temple at Aegina Glyptothek Munich. Moore's use of texture and his interest in natural formations is discussed with photographs of Pink and Green Sleepers 1941 drawing and Monet's The Cliff at Etretat.
Maquette for Upright Internal-External Form 1951 bronze is also discussed in this chapter by Jerrold Maddox and in a chapter by Roberta Capers entitled Form and Meaning."