Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
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Author/Editor: READ Herbert.
Publisher: Rencontre
Place Published: Lausanne and Paris
Year: 1968
Date & Collation: 84pp + 24 slides, in folder.Text in English, French, German and Spanish.
Description: U.N.E.S.C.O. Slides 'Painting and Sculpture' series. Published in association with U.N.E.S.C.O. Henry Moore: Mère et Enfant/Mother and Child/Mutter und Kind/Madre e Hijo. 24 colour slides on the theme of sculpture produced between 1924 and 1961, together with a fourteen-page text by Read in four languages. Much of Moore's art is on the Mother and Child theme, a subject with an immediate and universal appeal, and one which exhibits all the formal characteristics of his art. The motif stems from the art of prehistoric times and remains a celebration of the miracle of creation, a symbol of life itself, renewed in every generation. Each slide is discussed briefly. Arranged in chronological sequence, they document the development of the theme, and other aspects of Moore's art throughout the years. In conclusion Moore's treatment of the human figure, which combines a humanity with a tragic conception of life, is seen as a measure of his greatness, synthesising as it does the particular and the universal.