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0009167
Author/Editor: BLAKE Christopher.
Publisher: Allen and Unwin
Place Published: London
Year: 1937
Date & Collation: 80pp.Illus.
Description: Introduction, followed by plates with captions on the work of 20 artists.
76-77(1 illus) Henry Moore: Two Forms, 1934 ironstone.His work is in a line with the original impulse in carving which was to make significant shape out of intractable material and to stop when it would yield no more. The result is something solid and substantial and yet amazingly sensitive and emotional."
0009169
Publisher: Gerald Howe
Place Published: London
Year: 1937
Date & Collation: viii,147pp.Illus.
Description: Collection of essays by artists, introduced by Myfanwy Evans.
21-29(3 illus) MOORE Henry. Notes on Sculpture.
Important early text, reprinted from The Listener (See 0009196).
There is passing mention of Moore in Myfanwy Evans' introduction, and in John Piper's texts 'Lost: a valuable object' and 'England's Early Sculptors'.
0009168
Author/Editor: GIEDION-WELCKER Carola.
Publisher: Girsberger
Place Published: Zürich
Year: 1937
Date & Collation: 166pp.Illus.Biog 152-158.Bibliog 159-161.Text in German.
Description: Designed 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."