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0023944
Author/Editor: CALIANDRO Christian
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Place Published: Milan
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 208pp.illus.
Description:

Catalogue of artworks in the collection of the Unipol Group, the Italian financial services company based in Bologna. A section entitled "Intermezzo II: Other Foreign Works" lists Moore's Two Piece Reclining Figure No.5, on display in Turin (illus. p.148) along with works by Chagall, Braques, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, and Ipousteguy. There is brief commentary on Moore's work, the influence of Picasso and of Pre-Colombian artwork.

0023964
Publisher: National Museum of Art, Osaka
Place Published: Osaka, Japan
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 104pp.illus.
Description:

Collection catalogue for the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, showing highlights from a collection of more than 8000 works. Work #13, in the section "Contemporary International Artists" is Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge. illus. with brief commentary in English and Japanese.


0023970
Author/Editor: BERGER John
Publisher: Youlhwadang
Place Published: Korea
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 667pp.
Description:

Collection of biographical essays on artists by John BERGER, translated into Korean. Arranged in chronological order, beginning with the Chauvet cave painters (c. 30,000 BC) and concluding with contemporary artist Randa Mdah (b.1983). pp.420-431 is an essay on Moore. Mentions of Three Standing Figures, King and Queen, and Mother and Child: Block Seat.

0023996
Author/Editor: JONES Jonathan
Publisher: Laurence King
Place Published: London
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 336pp.illus.
Description: Monograph on early modern, modern, and contemporary British art. pp.299-300: discussion of Moore's elmwood Reclining Figure 1936, which Jones sees as a "disconcertingly shaped" carving. He dismisses Moore's work as merely "emulating the latest thing from Paris", contrasting Moore with director Alfred Hitchcock, who he sees as one of Britain's greatest modern artists. 
0024013
Author/Editor: edited by William HACKMAN and Mark GREENBERG
Publisher: Getty Publications
Place Published: Los Angeles, California
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 178pp.illus.
Description:

Second edition of 0021405. Story of the J. Paul Getty Museum, its origins and programs, two campuses, art and architecture and inner workings. Highly illustrated with photographs of interior and exterior shots of the museum and it's staff. Includes two Moore illus: Page viii-ix shows Moore's Seated Woman 1958-59 bronze, (LH 440) and Reclining Mother and Baby 1983 bronze, (LH 822) in storage prior to being sited on the Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Terrace. Page 150 shows Seated Woman 1958-59 bronze, (LH 440) in its new location.

0024015
Author/Editor: PALMER R.R., COLTON Joel, and KRAMER Lloyd
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Place Published: New York
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: Eleventh ed. xxix+1072+6+42 pp.
Description:

Textbook on modern European history. Moore's Sculptural Object (1960) illustrated as part of discussion of 20th century art (p.1047). Caption describes it as an example of the non-representational art which became common in both 20th century sculpture and painting.

0024029
Publisher: Pointed Leaf Press
Place Published: New York
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 241pp.illus.
Description:

Book celebrating the 100th birthday of the art dealer Alex Rosenberg. Mentions of Moore and images of his work throughout, including:

p.6: photograph of Rosenberg in his office with a bronze cast of Horse

pp.94-97: Rosenberg's relationship with Moore. Two photographs of Moore: one in the Etching Studio; the other in Gildmore Graphics Studio. Recollections by Rosenberg and David Mitchinson.

p.105: illus of Two Women Bathing a Child

pp.124-125: Illus of The Alex Rosenberg Gallery, with various works by Moore installed for the 1983 exhibition Henry Moore: The New Work.

pp.144, 146, 148: illus of the Rosenbergs' apartment on East 69th Street, New York. Three HM sculptures are on view.

pp.156-157: Rosenberg loans and then sells Upright Motive No.9 to Hofstra university (illus.)

pp.158-159: illus of Rosenberg looking at Harlow Family Group.

pp.160-161: 1987 exhibition Mother and Child: The Art of Henry Moore at Hofstra University.

0024030
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Place Published: Berlin
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 337pp.illus.
Description: Catalogue of sculpture by Sean Scully. p.75: illus of Crate of Air at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with Moore's Reclining Figure: Hand in background.
0024004
Author/Editor: BLATCHFORD Ian and BLYTH Tilly
Publisher: Bantam Press
Place Published: London
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 314pp.illus.
Description: Book on the relationship between art and science, through twenty case-studies. Chapter 13, "The Form of Knowledge: The Mathematical Model as Muse" discusses the influence of stringed mathematical models on Moore and his contemporaries. Moore would have seen Théodore Olivier's stringed models at the Science Museum when he was a student. Other modern artists inspired by these models include Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo, Max Ernst, and Man Ray. Illus. of Moore's drawing Ideas for Stringed Figure Sculptures 1937.
0024035
Publisher: Wilhelm Hack Museum
Place Published: Ludwigshafen
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 372pp.illus.
Description: Collection catalogue of works of modern art at the Wilhelm Hack Museum. p.182: Henry Moore's Reclining Figure No.1 1952. Included in section 10, "Informel", alonside works by Marino Marini and Jean Dubuffet, among others.
0023916
Author/Editor: THEYS Hans
Publisher: Royal Acdemy of Fine Arts
Place Published: Antwerp
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 96pp.illus.
Description:

Subtitled "a few remarks on the art of drawing". Two Henry Moore works illustrated: Studies of Sculpture in the British Museum (HMF 123) and Sheep with Lamb I (CGM 196). Henry Moore's time teaching art mentioned on p.64.

0024009
Author/Editor: EMMER Michele
Publisher: Bollati Boringhieri
Place Published: Turin
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 288pp.illus.
Description: Mentions of Moore and the influence of stringed mathematical figures on his work: p.175, p.198, pp.224-5. Illus. of a stringed sculpture by Moore, Mother and Child 1938.
0024107
Publisher: Schöningh Westermann
Place Published: Braunschweig
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 145pp. illus.
Description:

Art textbook. Section headed "Schattentäler - Lichtberge" ["Valleys of Shadow - Mountains of Light"] (pp.94-95) discusses Moore's elmwood Reclining Figure 1945-46 (LH 263) alongside Constantin Brancusi's Mlle. Pogany. Discusses Moore's use of the reclining figure theme. Illustrated with a drawing of the Reclining Figure. A full-page version of the same illustration is reproduced on p.139.

0023997
Author/Editor: HOFFMAN Philip, HAWKINS Trystan, et al.
Publisher: Unicorn
Place Published: London
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 165pp.illus.
Description: Collection of essays on the use of the arts at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital from the 1980s, where James SCOTT had founded an arts project at St. Stephen's Hospital, the predecessor to the Chelsea & Westminster, through the opening of the new Chelsea & Westminster in 1993, to the present day.  Richard CORK's contribution to the volume, "A Journey through Transformative Art", includes illustration and discussion of Moore's Sculptural Forms (pp.69-70).
0024044
Author/Editor: LABRUSSE Rémi
Publisher: Hazan
Place Published: Paris
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 240pp.illus.
Description:

Monograph on the influence of prehistory on art.

p.147: mentioned in a discussion of images of apocalypses and the post-apocalyptic in art, alongside Tacita Dean, Robert Smithson, and Max Ernst.

p.155: mentions of Moore's visits to the caves of Altamira and the valley of Vézère in the 1930s,  alongside other artists who visited these sites: de Staël, Paalen and Miro to Altamira; Brassaï, Giacometti, Tal-Cat, Motherwell and Francenthaler to Vézère.

p.156: mentions of Moore's drawings of the Venus of Grimaldi. Study after 'Venus of Grimaldi' 1926 illus. (fig.119).

p.200: discussion of British artists making art inspired by neolithic sites in the UK, with faching illus. of Moore's Stonehenge I 1972 (fig.156).

0024076
Author/Editor: ADAMS Nicholas
Publisher: Yale University Press
Place Published: New Haven
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 288pp.illus.
Description: Monograph on the life and work of the architect Gordon Bunshaft of the firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Many mentions of Moore, beginning (p.79) with Bunshaft approaching him as a potential designer of a sculpture to go outside the Chase Manhattan building designed by SOM; Moore turned down the commission. Other Moore topics include: Bunshaft's relationship with Moore, and his ownership of works by Moore (in total 29, including Helmet Head No.1 (illus), Two Piece Reclining Figure No.4, and Three Rings); the Lincoln Center Reclining Figure; and the Banque Lambert, which a cast of Locking Piece sits outside.
0024094
Author/Editor: BORRUSO Francesca R.
Publisher: Edizione Espera
Place Published: Monte Compatri
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 227pp.illus.
Description:

Monograph on the influence of prehistory and prehistoric art on the work of Henry Moore. The book is titled after the paleolithic Venus figurines which Moore sketched in Notebook No.6, but discusses more broadly Moore's works which draw on prehistoric artworks, and the places he would have come into contact with these prehistoric sources (especially the British Museum, and the book Die Kunst der Primitiven). Illustrations of Moore works discussed throughout.

0023958
Author/Editor: GARDNER Stephen C.P.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Place Published: London
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 366pp.illus.
Description:

Textbook on drawing. p.225 has illus. and analysis of Moore's Tube Shelter Perspective: The Liverpool Street Extension. The book discusses Moore's "Artistic Aims", the context of the drawing, and Moore's techniques.

0024010
Author/Editor: AVRIL Ellen, GREEN Nancy E., INSELMANN Andrea, WEISLOGEL Andrew C., WILES Stephanie L.
Publisher: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Place Published: Ithaca, New York
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 352pp.illus.
Description: Guide to the collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, arranged broadly chronologically. The museum owns two Moore works, discussed on p.219 in the section on "Midcentury Sculpture": Reclining Figure (LH 247) and Maquette for Standing Figure (LH 290a). Both are illustrated. Moore's works are discussed alongside those by Seymour LIPTON, an American abstract expressionist and almost exact contemporary of Moore.
0024025
Author/Editor: Edited by HALLMAN Lee
Publisher: The Modern
Place Published: Fort Worth
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 404pp.illus.
Description: Catalogue of highlights from the collection of The Modern, Fort Worth. Among the 220 works featured is Henry Moore's Two Piece Reclining Figure No.2 1960. p.236 is a page-long commentary on the work by Michael Auping; the facing page has a full-page photograph of the work in the grounds of the Museum. Auping relates the work to the Chacmool figure, and to reclining figures in classical Greek sculpture.
0024081
Author/Editor: Edited by BOGZARAN Fariba
Publisher: Lucid Art Foundation
Place Published: Inverness, CA
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 348pp.illus.
Description:

Monograph on the surrealist artist Gordon Onslow-Ford. Divided into seven chapters, each by a different contributor. Dawn ADES' on "Gordon Onslow-Ford: Surrealism, Automatism, and Science" mentions Onslow-Ford's use of an image of Reclining Figure 1939 in a photocollage published in the London Bulletin; the photocollage is illustrated. Reclining Figure 1939 also shown in a photograph of the Zwemmer Gallery's 1940 exhibition Surrealism Today

Catalogue of the Collection, Ishibashi Foundation 1952-2018
0024108
Publisher: Artizon Museum
Place Published: Tokyo
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 428pp.illus.
Description: Comprehensive catalogue of works in the collection of the Ishibashi Foundation. Catalogue is divided into three sections: Western art, Japanese art, and other works. Included in this are 37 prints (including a complete Stonehenge Portfolio), 3 drawings (Six Reclining Figures, Nine Studies for Family Group, and Head of Prometheus), and 2 sculptures (Reclining Figure: Prop and Mother and Child: Rubenesque) by Henry Moore. Catalogue details for each work include title, date, medium, dimensions, acquisition date, and a photograph.
0024091
Place Published: Tollesbury, Essex
Year: 2019
Date & Collation: 38pp.illus.
Description:

38-page booklet made up of a brief interview between Roland Piché and Debra Blik, a selection of Piché's sculptures dating from 1967 to 2019, biographical information, and photographs of Piché in his studio.

Interview mentions that Piché was an assistant to Moore, and talks briefly about his relationship to Moore's work. Biography mentions Piché's curation of Bronze Sculpture at the Herbert Read Gallery in 1996, which included works by Moore.