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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."
0007428
Author/Editor: GIEDION-WELCKER Carola.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 1956
Date & Collation: xxxi,327pp.Illus.Biog 257-283.Bibliog by Bernard KARPEL 285-324.
Description: Published in New York by Wittenborn and in Stuttgart by Hatje under the title Plastik des XX Jahrhunderts (See 0007564). A greatly enlarged and revised edition of Modern Plastic Art" 1937 (See 0009168).
130-136274277-278316-318(11 illus) Henry Moore.
Illustrations with brief accompanying text or captions incorporating brief published statements by Moore. Karpel's bibliography cites 15 publications on Moore. There is a 25-line biography."
0007590
Author/Editor: GIEDION-WELCKER Carola.
Publisher: Werk
Place Published: Winterthur
Year: 1955
Date & Collation: (April) 42(4) 126-130(1 Moore illus).Text in German.
Description: Includes a photograph of Composition, 1933 walnut wood, juxtaposed visually with a Gaudí chimney pot from Casa Milá.
0007564
Author/Editor: GIEDION-WELCKER Carola.
Publisher: Hatje
Place Published: Stuttgart
Year: 1955
Date & Collation: xxxiii,332pp.Illus.Biog 257-287.Bibliog by Bernard KARPEL 289-328.Text in German.
Description: German edition of Contemporary Sculpture (See 0007428).
130-136,276,etc(8 illus) Henry Moore.
Plus photograph of Moore in Biography section on page 278, and two facsimile notes on sculpture in Moore's handwriting in the Bibliography section on pages 320-322.
Title as printed: Plastik des XX. Jahrhunderts: Volumen- und Raumgestaltung.
0006632
Author/Editor: GIEDION-WELCKER Carola.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 1961
Date & Collation: xxxi,397pp.Illus.Biog 321-354.Bibliog by Bernard KARPEL 355-394.
Description: First published by Faber 1956. This edition also published by Wittenborn (New York) 1960.
144-150,344,etc(8 illus) Henry Moore.
30-page introductory essay is followed by 318 pages of illustrations with brief captions; the Moore works date from 1934-1950. There is also a photograph of Moore on page 340, and two facsimile notes on sculpture in Moore's handwriting from 0007728 on pages 386-388 in the Bibliography section.
For 1937 Moderne Plastik see 0009168.
0006825
Author/Editor: GIEDION-WELCKER Carola.
Publisher: Werk
Place Published: Winterthur
Year: 1961
Date & Collation: (May) 48(5) 174-180(1 Moore illus).Text in German.Summaries in English and French insert.
Description: Includes an illustration of the bronze model for the Time-Life Screen, 1952-1953 Portland stone, and a paragraph on this work and the Rotterdam Bouwcentrum Wall Relief, 1955 brick. See also 0006820.
0006820
Author/Editor: GIEDION-WELCKER Carola.
Publisher: Vingtième Siècle
Place Published: Paris
Year: 1961
Date & Collation: 16 1961(May) 3-15,118-122(1 Moore illus).Text in English and French.
Description: One of the articles in an issue of XXe Siècle entitled: Renouveau du Relief. Includes an illustration of the Rotterdam Bouwcentrum Wall Relief, 1955 brick which is described as animating the wall and giving it rhythm. The Time-Life Screen, 1952-1953 Portland stone is also mentioned briefly. See also 0006825.
Journal title as printed: XXe Siècle.