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0006580
Author/Editor: RUSSELL Vera., RUSSELL John.
Publisher: Illustrazione Italiana
Place Published: Milan
Year: 1962
Date & Collation: (Sept)..(2 illus).Text in Italian.
Description: Italian edition of Sunday Times feature 17 and 24 Dec 1961 (See 0006749).
0006749
Author/Editor: RUSSELL Vera., RUSSELL John.
Publisher: Sunday Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1961
Date & Collation: (17 Dec)..(7 illus).<br>1961(24 Dec)..(3 illus).
Description: Two-part feature of interviews with Henry MOORE at Much Hadham. Subjects discussed include Reclining Figure theme and initial inspiration for sculpture; early decision to become a sculptor on hearing story of Michelangelo knocking out tooth of faun he was carving; carving piggie (Tip cat); his parents and Alice Gostick; World War 1; Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art and the people with whom Moore came into contact at the time, particularly William Rothenstein; Paris, Italy and early exhibitions and press hostility; marriage to Irina Radetzky and working in Kent with Bernard Meadows as assistant; carving; political and social reponsibilities of the artist; Spanish Civil War and Picasso; Shelter drawings. Enjoyment of modern sculpture, from Brancusi, Picasso and others. Monumentality, Cézanne, influence of Greece, Giovanni Pisano, and all sculpture is based on...the human body".
For Italian edition of this interview see 0006580."
For Italian edition of this interview see 0006580."
0006550
Author/Editor: RUSSELL Vera., RUSSELL John.
Publisher: New York Times Magazine
Place Published: New York
Year: 1962
Date & Collation: (11 Nov) 60-61,75,78,80,82(8 illus).
Description: A noted British sculptor commissioned by Lincoln Center to undertake the largest work of his career discussed space form and the holes in his art." Moore's work and career are placed in perspective and his comments from a Much Hadham interview are given. Topics include sculpture and architecture scale reliefs painting sculpture and form."