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0014801
Publisher: Curt Valentin
Place Published: New York
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: xlivpp(26 illus).216 plates(359illus).Biog.Bibliog.Texts by Henry MOORE.Introduction by Herbert READ.
Description: U.S.A. edition of work published in London by Lund Humphries 1946 (See 0008704).
0019673
Publisher: Lindsay Drummond
Place Published: London
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: 144pp.Illus.
Description: An Anthology of Allied war Cartoons.
72-73 The Meeting of the Big Three: current history as depicted by divers Old Masters.
Two-page cartoon by Walter Trier in the manner of eight paintings, and a tiny Henry Moore sculpture where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin are three reclining figures.
72-73 The Meeting of the Big Three: current history as depicted by divers Old Masters.
Two-page cartoon by Walter Trier in the manner of eight paintings, and a tiny Henry Moore sculpture where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin are three reclining figures.
0013993
Publisher: Hutchinson
Place Published: London
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: xxiv,174pp.Plates.
Description: A concise epitome of all matters relating to the arts of painting sculpture engraving and architecture and to schools of design which have occurred during the years 194119421943 together with information respecting the year 1944 with full-page illustrations". Includes half-a-dozen list-mentions of works by Moore in its directories of galleries museums societies. Prior to this The Year's Art had appeared annually with similar list-mentions of Moore with his address in the 1930s as 11A Parkhill Road London NW3 in the Directory of Artists and Art Workers."
0008701
Author/Editor: BENNEY Mark.
Publisher: Allen and Unwin
Place Published: London
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: ..pp.
Description: Novel set in an English coal field with 'Dust-cover design by Henry Moore' depicting one of the Coal Mine Drawings.
0008707
Author/Editor: LEWIS David.
Publisher: Paul Koston
Place Published: Cape Town
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: xiv,68pp.Plates.Bibliog.
Description: Survey of contemporary activities in the arts in South Africa, set in an international context. Includes four brief references to Moore, with mention, on page 22, of his personal fatalistic and pantheistic philosophy of approach. We find his lonely figures in the shape of hills or weather-beaten boulders or seams of running lava yet in the physical forms of sexless and impersonal men and women their joints cemented and immobile figures that are at once desolate and cosmic"."
0008705
Publisher: Theobald
Place Published: Chicago
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: 116pp.Illus.Biog.Prefatory texts by Daniel Catton RICH, Walter P.PAEPCKE, Egbert Jacobson.
Description: Book of exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago April-July 1945, also shown in other American cities 1945-1946. 90 designs by 44 artists from 28 countries which first appeared in issues of Time, Fortune or Business Week between May 1937 and June 1946. Themes ranged over the saving of waste paper to the supply of products throughout the world in paper containers. Part of the campaign became known as the United Nations Series.
86-87(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of Moore by Felix H. Man, short biography, and full-page colour illustration of Shelter Drawing, 1941 drawing dated September 1944, with the wording: American foods in paper packages aid Britain.""
86-87(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of Moore by Felix H. Man, short biography, and full-page colour illustration of Shelter Drawing, 1941 drawing dated September 1944, with the wording: American foods in paper packages aid Britain.""
0008711
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Longman
Place Published: London
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: 71pp.13 plates.
Description: The Arts in Britain, 1. Published for the British Council. Study of contemporary poetry, with The Lyre Bird, 1942 drawing in colour on front cover. See also 0008471.
0008462
Author/Editor: BILBO Jack.
Publisher: Modern Art Gallery
Place Published: London
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: 24pp.64 plates.
Description: 130 reproductions 16 in colour. Also including the earliest known forms of art African primitive art sculpture by unknown Greek and Roman masters and some promising modern newcomers."
Plate 58(2 illus) Sculpture by Henry Moore.
Two photographs of Reclining Figure 1932 carved reinforced concrete."
Plate 58(2 illus) Sculpture by Henry Moore.
Two photographs of Reclining Figure 1932 carved reinforced concrete."
0008708
Author/Editor: VALENTINER W.R.
Publisher: Wittenborn
Place Published: New York
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: xv,181pp(145 illus).
Description: Study of modern sculpture in relation to primitive, classical, medieval and modern works.
Moore is mentioned in passing in the chapter on Sculpture and Religion, and there is a short discussion of his work in the chapter entitled Sculpture in the Round in Prehistoric and Roman Times.
122-126,140-142(7 illus) His connections with nature, and with the Norman art of medieval England are mentioned. Figures in his War Drawings are seen as ghosts of the earth as if they had lived for eternities under the ground of which they are part". Other drawings and sculptures are briefly discussed and the author concludes that "By intensifying his intellect man separated himself from intimate connection with the earth and lost his natural strength".
Exhibition based on this book at Detroit Institute of Art (See 0008726) and City Art Museum of St. Louis (See 0008727)."
Moore is mentioned in passing in the chapter on Sculpture and Religion, and there is a short discussion of his work in the chapter entitled Sculpture in the Round in Prehistoric and Roman Times.
122-126,140-142(7 illus) His connections with nature, and with the Norman art of medieval England are mentioned. Figures in his War Drawings are seen as ghosts of the earth as if they had lived for eternities under the ground of which they are part". Other drawings and sculptures are briefly discussed and the author concludes that "By intensifying his intellect man separated himself from intimate connection with the earth and lost his natural strength".
Exhibition based on this book at Detroit Institute of Art (See 0008726) and City Art Museum of St. Louis (See 0008727)."
0008714
Author/Editor: WHITTICK Arnold.
Publisher: Country Life
Place Published: London
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: xv,181pp.Illus.Bibliog.
Description: the war memorial in its various aspects with an emphasis on aesthetic qualities."
68142158(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Madonna and Child 1943-1944 Hornton stone as an example of the rhythmical cohesion of parts in a unifying whole."
68142158(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Madonna and Child 1943-1944 Hornton stone as an example of the rhythmical cohesion of parts in a unifying whole."
0008713
Publisher: Pleiades Books
Place Published: London
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: xii,44pp.68 plates.
Description: 37,Plates 44 and 52(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Two full-page illustrations, and a note on Moore in the section 'Drawings by Sculptors'. Stationary and unmoving studies direct from the human form, the sitters are almost turned into stones." Later drawings for sculpture developed into "a sort of cine-sketch...free formalisation of a subject seen all round and conceived from varying aspects". Notes the strange atmosphere and complete detachment of War Drawings "too well known to need reproduction"."
Two full-page illustrations, and a note on Moore in the section 'Drawings by Sculptors'. Stationary and unmoving studies direct from the human form, the sitters are almost turned into stones." Later drawings for sculpture developed into "a sort of cine-sketch...free formalisation of a subject seen all round and conceived from varying aspects". Notes the strange atmosphere and complete detachment of War Drawings "too well known to need reproduction"."
0008706
Author/Editor: WHEELER Monroe.
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Place Published: New York
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: 120pp.Illus.Biog.Bibliog.
Description: Distributed by Simon and Schuster. Based on M.O.M.A. exhibition 7 April-2 Sept 1936, second edition 1938. Works by 100 artists.
85(1 illus) Henry Moore: 1944 Drawing from The Rescue by E. Sackville-West, published 1945 (See 0008810).
85(1 illus) Henry Moore: 1944 Drawing from The Rescue by E. Sackville-West, published 1945 (See 0008810).
0008712
Author/Editor: MOORE Henry.
Publisher: Wittenborn
Place Published: New York
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: 84 plates.
Description: The American edition of 0008811, 'published by agreement with Curt Valentin of New York.' A Wittenborn title page and simple dust wrapper are added to the Editions Poetry edition, with the 'blurb' from the British edition.
0008709
Author/Editor: WILENSKI R.H.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: 76pp.32 plates.
Description: 70-71,Plate 32(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Reproduction of Group of Red Draped Standing Figures, 1944 drawing, and passing mention of Moore: a sculptor and draughtsman of whom the word genius can properly be used."
For 1969 edition see 0004857."
Reproduction of Group of Red Draped Standing Figures, 1944 drawing, and passing mention of Moore: a sculptor and draughtsman of whom the word genius can properly be used."
For 1969 edition see 0004857."
0008704
Author/Editor: READ Herbert
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Place Published: London
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: xlivpp(26 illus).216 plates(359 illus).Biog.Bibliog.Texts by Henry MOORE.Introduction by Herbert READ.
Description: Revision of 1944 edition, with the ownership details being changed on some plates, and with the List of Owners being modified accordingly. For description see 0008893. For U.S.A. edition see 0010620.
0008710
Author/Editor: GUGGENHEIM Peggy.
Publisher: Dial Press
Place Published: New York
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: ix,365pp.8 plates.
Description: Original edition of work extended in 1979 (See 0002444). Includes brief mention of Henry Moore in the chapter on Guggenheim Jeune, on her admiration for Moore's drawings and the need for smaller works as the large sculpture would not fit in her house.
0008702
Publisher: Curt Valentin
Place Published: New York
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: 4pp.30 plates.
Description: Loose-leaf portfolio of 30 drawings in reproduction 1939-1944, including two in colour: Group of Red Standing Figures, 1944 drawing, Shelter Drawing, 1941 drawing.