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0009286
Publisher: Barker
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: 41pp(2 illus).49 plates.
Description: Book on the appreciation of drawing, illustrated by works of three dozen modern artists, including six by Moore (Plates 39-44) dating between 1928 and 1933.
32-36 On sculptors' drawings and Henry Moore in particular.
Haskell explains his choice of Moore's drawings: Moore young as he is has acquired a unique position for his research his promise and his actual achievement." Moore is seen as a pioneer taking over where Gaudier-Brzeska left off. Description and comment on each drawing reproduced discuss the techniques the logical development and the relation to sculpture. Comment ranges over "drawing for the sake of drawing" to increasing "his repertoire of natural form...to suggest bulk form in the round... Already a certain deformation is creeping in... The whole has dignity solidity repose." Moore's use of wash and cross-section is noted and the drawings are discussed in sculptural terms. "Her legs must therefore support her heavy stone body."
38-41 On carving.
A conversation between Henry Moore and Arnold L. Haskell reprinted from the New English Weekly 5 May 1932 (See 0009323)."
32-36 On sculptors' drawings and Henry Moore in particular.
Haskell explains his choice of Moore's drawings: Moore young as he is has acquired a unique position for his research his promise and his actual achievement." Moore is seen as a pioneer taking over where Gaudier-Brzeska left off. Description and comment on each drawing reproduced discuss the techniques the logical development and the relation to sculpture. Comment ranges over "drawing for the sake of drawing" to increasing "his repertoire of natural form...to suggest bulk form in the round... Already a certain deformation is creeping in... The whole has dignity solidity repose." Moore's use of wash and cross-section is noted and the drawings are discussed in sculptural terms. "Her legs must therefore support her heavy stone body."
38-41 On carving.
A conversation between Henry Moore and Arnold L. Haskell reprinted from the New English Weekly 5 May 1932 (See 0009323)."
0009287
Author/Editor: HAVINDEN Ashley.
Publisher: Studio
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: 96pp.Illus.
Description: Published with Studio Publications (New York). How to Do It series, 4. Book on techniques which includes examples of work by 21 artists, with commentary by the author.
90-91(1 illus) Henry Moore.
A full-page illustration of ideas for sculpture depicting fourteen standing figures. The technique employed, the use of pen line over wash, is discussed by Ashley Havinden.
A revised edition was published 1941, reprinted 1945 and 1949, with the Henry Moore content on pages 54-55.
90-91(1 illus) Henry Moore.
A full-page illustration of ideas for sculpture depicting fourteen standing figures. The technique employed, the use of pen line over wash, is discussed by Ashley Havinden.
A revised edition was published 1941, reprinted 1945 and 1949, with the Henry Moore content on pages 54-55.
0009284
Author/Editor: READ Herbert.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: 144pp.129 plates.Bibliog.
Description: Plates 37,53,55,90(4 illus) Henry Moore: one Drawing 1931 and two Carvings 1932.Most of the text of this book was originally delivered in the form of lectures. Relates to the October 1933 exhibition at the Mayor Gallery entitled here A Survey of Contemporary Art (See 0009292).
For subsequent editions see 0009203 (1936) 0008458 (1948) 0006843 (1960) and 0005011 (1968)."
For subsequent editions see 0009203 (1936) 0008458 (1948) 0006843 (1960) and 0005011 (1968)."
0009290
Author/Editor: UNDERWOOD Eric G.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: xvi,192pp.48 plates.Bibliog.
Description: Survey from pre-Medieval times to the 20th century. Includes a chapter on Frank Dobson, and a final chapter entitled Today and Tomorrow, which includes Moore.
166-172.Plate 46(1 illus) Henry Moore.
The illustration is Reclining Figure, 1930 Corsehill stone, since lost and probably destroyed. The text outlines the tenets of Unit One, and quotes Herbert Read's affirmation that English sculpture is reborn in the work of Moore. Underwood agrees that Moore heads the modern movement, and briefly discusses the importance of material in Moore's approach to creativity.
166-172.Plate 46(1 illus) Henry Moore.
The illustration is Reclining Figure, 1930 Corsehill stone, since lost and probably destroyed. The text outlines the tenets of Unit One, and quotes Herbert Read's affirmation that English sculpture is reborn in the work of Moore. Underwood agrees that Moore heads the modern movement, and briefly discusses the importance of material in Moore's approach to creativity.
0009285
Publisher: Wilson, H.W.
Place Published: New York
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: xiii,1565pp.
Description: The Art Index. January 1929-September 1932: a cumulative author and subject index to a selected list of fine art periodicals and museum bulletins; edited by Alice M. DOUGAN, Bertha JOEL. First permanent three-year cumulation of The Art Index.
972 Henry Moore: six references.
Art index published quarterly with cumulations from 1929, the latest full volume up to 1986 being Volume 33, November 1984 to October 1985 edited by Bertrun Delli, this having 29 Moore references. Other editors over the years have included Sarah St. John, Margaret Furlong, Mary M. Schmidt, David J. Patten, etc.
972 Henry Moore: six references.
Art index published quarterly with cumulations from 1929, the latest full volume up to 1986 being Volume 33, November 1984 to October 1985 edited by Bertrun Delli, this having 29 Moore references. Other editors over the years have included Sarah St. John, Margaret Furlong, Mary M. Schmidt, David J. Patten, etc.
0009288
Author/Editor: MARYON Herbert.
Publisher: Pitman
Place Published: London
Year: 1933
Date & Collation: xx,260pp.Illus.131 plates(336 figures).
Description: 50,Figures 28,30,31,33,35 Henry Moore.
Photographs of five Carvings 1929-1930, with a paragraph in the chapter 'Carving for its own Sake'. The works are related to the sculptural forms of a range of mountains where undoubtedly the character of the stone has suggested the design and treatment"."
Photographs of five Carvings 1929-1930, with a paragraph in the chapter 'Carving for its own Sake'. The works are related to the sculptural forms of a range of mountains where undoubtedly the character of the stone has suggested the design and treatment"."