Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Eight European Artists; photographed and edited by Felix H. Man, with original contributions by the eight artists.
0007728 Eight European Artists; photographed and edited by Felix H. Man, with original contributions by the eight artists. Felix H. Man London, Melbourne, Toronto French title: Huit Artistes Européens. German title: Acht Europäische Künstler.
157-183 MOORE Henry.
(Sixteen
photographs of the artist and his work, a biographical note, and Some
Notes on Space and Form in Sculpture in the artist's handwriting and
printed in three languages. This text was reprinted in 0007557 and
0005627. See also 00010242. "One distorts the forms in order to create
space... At one time the holes in my sculpture were made for their own
sakes. Because I was trying to become conscious of spaces in the
sculpture, I made the hole have a shape in its own right, the solid body
was encroached upon, eaten into, and sometimes the form was only the
shell holding the hole. Recently I have attempted to make the forms and
the spaces (not holes) inseparable, neither being more important than
the other... Force, Power, is made by forms straining or pressing from
inside. Knees, elbows, forehead, knuckles, all seek to press outwards.
Hardness, projection outwards, gives tension, force, and vitality...
Sculpture in the open air looks smaller than when seen in the enclosed
spaces of indoors... Sculptors' drawings.... Any wash, smudge, shading,
anything breaking the tyranny of the flat plane of the paper, opens up a
suggestion, a possibility of Space").
The other seven artists
featured in the book: Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Le
Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Graham Sutherland.