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0022846

Author/Editor: SHOLTEN Frits and BARASSI Sebastiano.

Publisher: Rijksmuseum

Place Published: Amsterdam

Year: 2013

Date & Collation: (22 June - 29 September 2013) 64pp.Illus.Notes

Description: Book published in connection with exhibition of the same name, to mark the opening of the Rijksmuseum's new 'outdoor gallery'. Essay by Frits SCHOLTEN, catalogue entries by Sebastiano BARASSI and foreword by Wim PIJBES of the Rijksmuseum. Essay Henry Moore, Primordial Sculptor references art theorist Leon Battista Alberti; affinity with natural materials; sculptural form and found objects; human and monumental scale; Moore's interest in landscape and the natural environment; Yorkshire landscape; Stonehenge; pre-Columbian Chac-Mool sculptures, Mexico; primitive sculpture; form and symbol. Illus of Moore's library of natural forms; a small scale study in Moore's workshop; Adel Crag, near Leeds; Stonehenge; Durdle Door, Dorset. Documentation, text and illustration, of the twelve works: Large Reclining Figure 1984 fibreglass, (LH 192b); Reclining Figure: Hand 1979 bronze, (LH 709); Locking Piece 1963-4 fibreglass and bronze editions (LH 515); Oval with Points 1968-1970 bronze, (LH 596); Knife Edge Two Piece 1962 - 1965 bronze, (LH 516); Two Piece Reclining Figure: Cut 1979-1981, (LH 758); Reclining Figure: Arch Leg 1969-1970, (LH 610); Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 2 1960 bronze, (LH 458); Draped Reclining Figure 1952-3 bronze, (LH 336); Reclining Woman: Elbow 1981 bronze, (LH 810); Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1976 bronze, (LH 482a) and Two Large Forms 1966 bronze, (LH 556).