Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Moderne Plastik: Elemente der Wirklichkeit, Masse und Auflockerung. (Modern Sculpture: elements of reality, mass and disintegration).
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110-111,156(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Photographs of Two Forms, 1934 pynkado wood and Sculpture, 1935 white marble. A sentence from Herbert Read's Henry Moore (See 0009257). In my sculpture I do not use my memory or observations of a particular object but rather whatever comes up from my general fund of knowledge of natural forms." Short commentary notes the intervention of the mathematical into his organic forms. Moore is mentioned in passing in the introduction within the section on Surrealism linking his approach to that of Brancusi and Arp. The book also contains photographs of ancient art megaliths nature.
For 1956 edition see 0007428."
Bib. Number0009168
Moderne Plastik: Elemente der Wirklichkeit, Masse und Auflockerung. (Modern Sculpture: elements of reality, mass and disintegration).
Author/EditorGIEDION-WELCKER Carola.
PublisherGirsberger
Place PublishedZürich
Year1937
Date & Collation166pp.Illus.Biog 152-158.Bibliog 159-161.Text in German.
LanguageGerman/
More InformationDesigned by Herbert Bayer. Fifteen-page introduction, followed by 130 pages of photographs with brief commentaries and quotations from the artists and other sources.110-111,156(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Photographs of Two Forms, 1934 pynkado wood and Sculpture, 1935 white marble. A sentence from Herbert Read's Henry Moore (See 0009257). In my sculpture I do not use my memory or observations of a particular object but rather whatever comes up from my general fund of knowledge of natural forms." Short commentary notes the intervention of the mathematical into his organic forms. Moore is mentioned in passing in the introduction within the section on Surrealism linking his approach to that of Brancusi and Arp. The book also contains photographs of ancient art megaliths nature.
For 1956 edition see 0007428."