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0023953
Author/Editor: ELLIGOTT Michelle
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Place Published: New York
Year: 2018
Date & Collation: 173pp.
Description:

A publication on René d'Harnoncourt, director of The Museum of Modern Art for two decades (1949 - 1967), and his passion for the design and installation of museum exhibitions. Moore is referenced on page 160 in relation to his involvement in Moore's exhibition at MoMA, December 17 1946  - March 16 1947 (see 0008703).


0024328
Author/Editor: McLEOD Virginia
Publisher: Phaidon
Place Published: London
Year: 2017
Date & Collation: 560pp.index.illus.hbk
Description: A guide to contemporary architecture around the world with reference to the 2017 Hugh Broughton designed archive building at the Henry Moore Studios and Gardens, Perry Green, Hertfordshire, on page 187.
0000423
Publisher: Sidgwick and Jackson
Place Published: London
Year: 1984
Date & Collation: 156pp(167 illus).Commentary by Henry MOORE.
Description: Paperback edition of work first published 1978. For annotation see 0002887.
0000179
Author/Editor: MOORE Henry
Publisher: British Museum
Place Published: London
Year: 1988
Date & Collation: 24pp.67 colour plates.Bibliog.
Description: For American edition see 0011052. For German edition see 0011053. "The Trustees of the British Museum acknowledge with gratitude the generosity of the Henry Moore Foundation for the grant which made the publication of this book possible".
7-13 Introduction in the words of Henry Moore.
Detailed account of life in Kent and Hampstead and working situation at the outbreak of war. Describes discovery of shelterers on Northern Line when travelling from town back to Belsize Park station. "They were a bit like the chorus in a Greek drama telling us about the violence we don't actually witness". His method of producing the two Sketchbooks, the first being the one reproduced here, the second owned by Irina Moore. The move to Much Hadham and the production of drawings for the War Artists' Advisory Committee. Outlines wax resist technique used.
14-20 CAREY Frances. Commentary.
Outlines the bequest to the British Museum of Kenneth Clark's Sketchbook, and the possession by the Henry Moore Foundation of the second Sketchbook. "The Shelter Sketchbooks, 1940-1941, belong to a period of extraordinary fecundity in Moore's career as a draughtsman". Describes their background, and comments on individual drawings, with quotations from the artist and other writers on the subject. Their influence on his subsequent sculpture and career is also noted. The Penguin New Writing text on Moore from 1943 (See 0008984) attributed to Keith Vaughan is reprinted here.
21-22 Bibliography.
The exhibition Henry Moore: the Shelter Drawings was held at the British Museum 10 Nov 1988 to 12 Feb 1989. For a list of Gallery Talks and Slide Lectures related to the exhibition see 0014218.       
0017001
Author/Editor: EHRLICH Doreen.
Publisher: Crescent Books
Place Published: New York
Year: 1994
Date & Collation: 112pp(96 illus).Bibliog.
Description: Distributed by Outlet Book Company, a Random House Company, Avenal, New Jersey. Copyright 1994 by Brompton Books. Greenwich, Conn.
For description and 1994 Park Lane edition, an imprint of Grange Books, produced by Bison Books, see 0016045.
The dust jacket of the New York edition is Large Interior Form, 1982 bronze which was on the back of the London edition.
For 1999 paperback see 0018220.
0017024
Author/Editor: MEYER Peter Livingston.
Publisher: Kendall-Hunt
Place Published: Dubuque, Iowa.
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: 250pp.Illus.Glossary.Bibliog.
Description: Art appreciation and techniques book, with illustrations of works by Moore on pages 27 and 49 in sections Rocks and Holes, and Drawing. Includes a previously published quotation.
0017025
Author/Editor: SPENCER John.
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Place Published: London
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: 192pp.Illus.Bibliog.
Description: Elementary guide to the study of art history.
157(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph and note on Reclining Figure, 1936 elm wood followed on page 158 by a Chacmool figure.
0016996
Author/Editor: LOHF Kenneth A.
Publisher: Grolier Club
Place Published: New York
Year: 1995
Date & Collation: 173pp.Illus.Bibliog.
Description: The exhibition Poets in a War was curated by Kenneth A. Lohf and held at the Grolier Club from 6 December 1995 to 17 February 1996. Mentions Moore as a War Artist; and book illustrator with reproductions of a 1941 war drawing and the covers of Several Observations (See 0000362) and Poetry London 8 (See 0000503).
0017031
Author/Editor: FARMER John.
Publisher: Butterworth Architecture
Place Published: Oxford
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: xvi,203pp.Illus.Glossary.Bibliog.
Description: Published in association with WWF-UK. A chronological history of modern architecture seen from an ecological viewpoint, commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund.
Mentions A Land by Jacquetta Hawkes (See 0008129) and reproduces Crowd Looking at a Tied-Up Object, 1942 drawing, and two war drawings.
For second edition 1999 see 0018351.
0017032
Author/Editor: GRAHAM-DIXON Andrew.
Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation
Place Published: London
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: 256pp.Illus.Bibliog.
Description: Book published to accompany the television series (See 0017091).
216-217(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Henry Moore spent his life putting his idea of the ideal woman on a pedestal.
0017067
Author/Editor: UPSTONE Robert.
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Place Published: New York, London, Paris
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: 320pp.Illus.
Description: Tiny Folio series.
209-312(2 Moore illus) THe Twentieth Century.
Prefatory mention, and illustrations of Pink and Green Sleepers, 1941 drwaing and King and Queen, 1952-1953 bronze. The sculpture also appears as a tiny image on the spine of the book.
0007033
Author/Editor: CANADAY John.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Place Published: New York
Year: 1959
Date & Collation: xxxii,xxiv,576pp(Over 700 illus).
Description: Survey of 19th and 20th century art.
499-500(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Photographs of Reclining Figure, 1935-1936 elm wood and Upright Internal-External Form, 1953-1954 elm wood at Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, are illustrated. There is a brief text on Moore's inspiration from natural forces. This in the chapter on Cubism and Abstract Art.
0007036
Author/Editor: HUBBARD R.H.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Place Published: Toronto
Year: 1959
Date & Collation: xii,234pp.Illus.Biog.Foreword by Alan JARVIS.
Description: Published for the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
110,197(3 illus) Henry Moore.
Documents two drawings Family Group, 1948 drawing, Seated Figure, 1948 drawing, and Reclining Woman, 1930 green Hornton stone, together with a brief biography. There is a list-mention of Moore in a prefatory text by Hubbard extracted from his European Paintings in Canadian Collections.
0007042
Author/Editor: MILLS John W.
Publisher: Contractors Record Ltd.
Place Published: London
Year: 1959
Date & Collation: 52pp.Illus.20 plates.
Description: The Concrete Library. Techniques book, with photographs of twenty works by sculptors, including Plate 3: Time and Life Draped Reclining Figure, 1952-1953 bronze by Moore, with a brief explanatory note on page 51 on the technique of its production.
0007045
Publisher: Elsevier
Place Published: Amsterdam and Brussels
Year: 1959
Date & Collation: 3 vols: 619pp,623pp,619pp.Illus.Bibliog.Text in Dutch.
Description: Published under the auspices of the Winkler Prins Stichting. One of a series of Winkler Prins encyclopedias, this arts set has 111 pages of prefatory texts, and chronological tables followed by the main A-Z sequence of short entries over 3 volumes.
Vol. 2 (1959): 551-552(1 illus) Henry Moore: small photograph of Draped Reclining Figure, 1952-1953 bronze, outline of career and bibliographical references.
0007080
Author/Editor: RUSSELL John.
Publisher: Tudor
Place Published: New York
Year: 1965
Date & Collation: 16pp.24 plates.
Description: Petite Encyclopédie de l'Art. See 0005857 London edition for description and details of other editions.
0017028
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Place Published: Liverpool
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: x,262pp.Illus.Notes.Index.Bibliog by Meg DUFF.
Description: Published with the Tate Gallery Liverpool. Tate Gallery Liverpool Cultural Forum Series, 3.
Includes over fifty references to Henry Moore, and illustrations of two of his works. (The bibliography in turn cites the references to Hepworth throughout the Henry Moore Bibliography).
There are comparisons with Moore, and notes on the Mother and Child theme in the two artists, and Stringed Figures.
The essays are by David THISTLEWOOD, Penny FLORENCE, Alex POTTS, Anne M. WAGNER, Katy DEEPWELL, Anne J. BARLOW, Martin HAMMER and Christine LODDER, Chris STEPHENS, Penelope CURTIS, Claire DOHERTY, Alun R. GRAVES, Emma E. ROBERTS.
There are also extensive references to Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson, and Herbert Read.
A revised and edited version of Katy Deepwell's text Barbara Hepworth and her Critics appears in the 1998 book Women Artists and Modernism (See 0017785).
0017018
Author/Editor: MARKS Edward A.
Publisher: Il Cigno Galileo Galilei
Place Published: Rome
Year: 1995
Date & Collation: 214pp.Illus.Biog.Bibliog.Prefatory texts.
Description: Published for and on behalf of the United Nations, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
18,38-39,67,202(3 illus) Henry Moore.
Biography, illustrations, and mention of Reclining Figure: Hand, 1978-1979 bronze in New York, a gift in memory of Dag Hammerskjold; and the U.N.E.S.C.O. Reclining Figure, 1957-1958 travertine marble in Paris.
0017030
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Place Published: Manchester and New York.
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: xii,271pp.Illus.Bibliog.
Description: Distributed in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press. Collection of essays on E.H. Gombrich.
196-215 BIRTWISTLE Graham. When skills become obtrusive: on E.H. Gombrich's contribution to the study of primitivism in art.
(204-207 Negation of action: Moore, Appel, and Constant.
Mentions Moore's claim that he learned more from visiting the British Museum and reading Roger Fry than from his studies at the Royal College of Art, and how this was not received well by the College. Public also disliked primitive elements in mural made by the Cobra artists. Subsequent works by each artist became accepted).
0017065
Publisher: Ishibashi Foundation
Place Published: Tokyo
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: 2 Vols:32pp.Illus.187plates+229pp.Illus.Biog.Bibliog.Chronologies.Prefatory Texts.Text in English and Japanese.
Description: Published with Bridgestone Museum of Art, and Ishibashi Museum of Art.
Volume 1: Plates 85 and 184(2 illus) Henry Moore: Studies for Reclining Figures, 1949 drawing and Reclining Figure: Prop, 1976 bronze
Catalogue entries appear for these works in Volume 2 pages 49 and 95; and with small black and white illustrations on pages 112 and 165.
0017066
Publisher: Grolier Educational
Place Published: Danbury, Conn.
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: 48pp.Illus.Glossary.Bibliog.Text Mark RAVENHILL.
Description: Copyright Marshall Cavendish. Looking at Art, 6.
School book, with photograph of Northampton carving in introduction to section on 20th century.
0017100
Author/Editor: WEINTRAUB Jacob.
Publisher: Madison Books
Place Published: Langham, New York, London
Year: 1994
Date & Collation: x,285pp.Illus.Plates.
Description: Subtitle: From the Bottom of the Warsaw Ghetto to the Top of New York's Art World: an autobiography. Memoir by owner of Weintraub Gallery. One plate is devoted to four photographs of Moore and his sculpture, and there are numerous mentions of Moore, notably in the chapter on Sculpture. Mentions group and solo exhibitions, sales, and contacts with the artist.
0017188
Publisher: Louisiana
Place Published: Humlebaek
Year: 1996
Date & Collation: 254pp.Illus.Textsin Danish and some other languages.
Description: Tributes to Knud Jensen on his 80th birthday. Redaktionssverlag Kurt Fromberg and five others. Illustrated by the covers of Louisiana Revy, including the 1976 Henry Moore issue (See 0003511).
Tabula Gratulatoria list on pages 248-254 includes the Henry Moore Foundation.
210-235 WESCHLER Lawrence. Louisiana in Denmark. Has passing mentions of Moore, and his work in the museum
0007044
Author/Editor: DEMISCH Heinz.
Publisher: Freies Geistesleben
Place Published: Stuttgart
Year: 1959
Date & Collation: 159pp.Plates(52 illus).Bibliog.Text in German.
Description: 84,89-90,Plate(24 illus) Henry Moore: Upright Internal-External Form, 1952-1953 bronze, is one of several modern works discussed. It is linked to both animal and vegetable world, and the motherly, protective inner and outer forms are noted. Quotes some other writers on Moore's search for the inner reality of nature and the vitality of the life force.