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0000436
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 1985
Date & Collation: 510pp.16 plates(46 illus).
Description: Includes a small reproduction of Moore's Portrait of Stephen Spender II, 1937 drawing, and passages about Moore in the text, focusing mainly on a three-page description of a 1960 visit to Much Hadham when Moore described six different approaches he had to drawing. Colour was discussed, and Spender selected drawings for the cover of Encounter (See 0006576). A two-page description of 13 June 1979 visit notes the expansion of Moore's activities into the Henry Moore Foundation, and recollections of Moore's early life, the First World War, the importance of literature, Michael Sadler.
For U.S.A. editions see 0010457.
For U.S.A. editions see 0010457.
0010935
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place Published: London
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: 8pp.
Description: Published for the Henry Moore Foundation. Text of the memorial address delivered in Westminster Abbey on 18 November 1986. Recalls Kenneth Clark's statement that Moore would have been the ideal ambassador of the human race to go to another planet. Notes Moore's humanity: All people to him were equals simply in being human." Remembers Hampstead in the 1930s and quotes Moore on abstraction and Surrealism. "Henry Moore throughout his life had a unique capacity for bringing together diverse elements of his observations of nature and of art into a unity of his personal vision." Notes his passion for the work of the great masters and for their spiritual vitality. Pays tribute to Moore's friendship and the simplicity of his working life style."
0002824
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: The Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: (29 July)..(1 illus).
Description: Poem, introducing Ganymed's etchings (See 0002892).
0009148
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: The Times
Place Published: London
Year: 1938
Date & Collation: (8 Oct)..(1 illus).
Description: Article by Spender illustrated by Henry Moore drawing of the poet. Also in Times Literary Supplement, 7 October 1938.
0015196
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Art and Antiques
Place Published: New York
Year: 1992
Date & Collation: (Jan) 74-79,97-98(1 illus).
Description: Spender recalls his meeting with Moore at time of portrait for London Mercury (See 0009197). Describes artistic life of Hampstead in the 1930s, and Moore at his happiest as a cottage industry chiseller in wood or stone. Illustrations and remaining text focus on War Drawings (The Blitz acted as a catalyst which fused in his sculpture the surreal and the abstract within the human") and also Moore's political views in the 1930s. Concludes with a poem by Spender entitled Henry's Childhood recalling a bull being despatched at a slaughterhouse in Castleford."
0020272
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Place Published: London.
Year: 1963
Date & Collation: xiii,266pp.
Description: Published in paperback by Methuen in 1965, and by the University of California Press in 1963 and 1965 paperback. Had it origins in the 1959 Beckman lectures at Berkeley. This is a book of personal reflections about those qualities in literature and art in the present century which I consider modern".
Contains half-a-dozen mentions of Henry Moore mainly in a discussion on 'Distortion' within the chapter 'The Modern as Vision of the Whole'."
Contains half-a-dozen mentions of Henry Moore mainly in a discussion on 'Distortion' within the chapter 'The Modern as Vision of the Whole'."
0008711
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Longman
Place Published: London
Year: 1946
Date & Collation: 71pp.13 plates.
Description: The Arts in Britain, 1. Published for the British Council. Study of contemporary poetry, with The Lyre Bird, 1942 drawing in colour on front cover. See also 0008471.
0002347
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Réalités
Place Published: Horsham, Pa.
Year: 1980
Date & Collation: (March-April) 80-85(8 illus).
Description: Extracts Reprinted by permission of Clarkson N. Potter Inc./Publishers from Henry Moore: sculptures in landscape..." (See 0002883)."
0012038
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Gazette
Place Published: Phoenix, Ariz.
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (9 Sept)..(1 illus).
Description: Edited version of 7 September 1986 Observer article (See 0011842). Also in: Knickerbocker News (Albany, N.Y.) 13 September 1986, 0012059 and 0012073.
0012059
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Pakistan Times
Place Published: Pakistan
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (19 Sept)..(2 illus).
Description: 7 September 1986 Observer article (See 0011842, also 0012038 and 0012073).
0010457
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Random House
Place Published: New York
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: 510pp.16 plates(46 illus).
Description: U.S.A. edition of work published by Faber 1985. See 0000436 for description 'A signed first edition of this book has been privately printed by The Franklin Library.'
0012073
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Otago Daily Times
Place Published: Otago
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (29 Sept)..(2 illus).
Description: Observer 7 September 1986 article (See 0011842, also 0012038 and 0012059).
0002697
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Fontana
Place Published: London
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: 286pp.
Description: Fontana/Collins paperback edition of work published simultaneously in hardback by The Macmillan Press. A collection of previously published articles reviews memoirs and journals". Includes one or two brief mentions of Henry Moore; notably on 221-222 recording a discussion with Moore on great artists of the past from Journal published in Art and Literature 9 Summer 1966.
For Stephen Spender's Journals 1939-1983 see 0000436."
For Stephen Spender's Journals 1939-1983 see 0000436."
0000118
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: House and Garden
Place Published: London
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (May)..(2 illus).
Description: Text edited from In Irina's Garden (See 0000078).
0002628
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Chronicle of Higher Education
Place Published: Washington, D.C.
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: (16 April)..(3 illus).
Description: Book excerpt, adapted from Henry Moore: sculptures in landscape (See 0002883).
0016255
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Art and Literature
Place Published: Lausanne
Year: 1966
Date & Collation: 9 1966(Summer) 198-215.
Description: Journal entries Sept-Nov 1965, not included in the book version of Spender's Journals 1939-1983 (See 0000436). Reports 16 Oct 1965 dinner in U.S.A. with Moore and H.F. (presumably Harry Fischer) some time after the unveiling of the Lincoln Center bronze and a visit to Chicago. Reports discussion on value judgements on artists across the centuries.
0000078
Author/Editor: SPENDER Stephen.
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Place Published: London and New York
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: 128pp(101 illus).
Description: The publisher would like to acknowledge with gratitude the generous assistance of the Henry Moore Foundation in the publication of this book".
8-9 FINN David. Preface.
(Notes the part played by Irina Moore in creating the environment at Much Hadham and welcoming visitors including David and Laura Finn since their first visit to the artist and his wife in the 1950s. Mrs. Moore has insisted on 'staying out of the limelight' over the years).
10-15 The House: plates.
16-27 SPENDER Stephen. Henry and Irina.
(Recollections of first contacts with Mr. and Mrs. Moore in the 1930s along with the other Hampstead artists and intellectuals. Although quiet Irina's views were always sought and she was the subject of Moore's early works. The war scattered the circle of friends and Henry and Irina settled in Much Hadham. Spender writes about their personalities and outlook on life and his visits to the couple together with Natasha Spender who shares Irina's passion for gardens. This text includes historical photographs of Henry and Irina Moore).
28-50 MOORE Irina. Reminiscences.
(Describes bombing of Hampstead and acquisition of Hoglands and eventually some surrounding properties. Plans the garden instinctively and shares Moore's views of setting sculpture in the open. Outlines her family background and meeting with Moore at the Royal College of Art and some highlights of their married life living in London and Kent visits abroad their daughter Mary exhibitions money and success).
51-70 Trees in the Garden: drawings by Henry Moore.
71-98 Sculpture in the garden: plates.
99-120 Trees in the garden: plates."
8-9 FINN David. Preface.
(Notes the part played by Irina Moore in creating the environment at Much Hadham and welcoming visitors including David and Laura Finn since their first visit to the artist and his wife in the 1950s. Mrs. Moore has insisted on 'staying out of the limelight' over the years).
10-15 The House: plates.
16-27 SPENDER Stephen. Henry and Irina.
(Recollections of first contacts with Mr. and Mrs. Moore in the 1930s along with the other Hampstead artists and intellectuals. Although quiet Irina's views were always sought and she was the subject of Moore's early works. The war scattered the circle of friends and Henry and Irina settled in Much Hadham. Spender writes about their personalities and outlook on life and his visits to the couple together with Natasha Spender who shares Irina's passion for gardens. This text includes historical photographs of Henry and Irina Moore).
28-50 MOORE Irina. Reminiscences.
(Describes bombing of Hampstead and acquisition of Hoglands and eventually some surrounding properties. Plans the garden instinctively and shares Moore's views of setting sculpture in the open. Outlines her family background and meeting with Moore at the Royal College of Art and some highlights of their married life living in London and Kent visits abroad their daughter Mary exhibitions money and success).
51-70 Trees in the Garden: drawings by Henry Moore.
71-98 Sculpture in the garden: plates.
99-120 Trees in the garden: plates."