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0011248
Publisher: Hamlyn
Place Published: London
Year: 1989
Date & Collation: 560pp.Illus.
Description: Year-by-year chronology and survey in photographs 1900-1989.
521(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Mentions Moore's death in 1986 with a photograph of the sculptor with James Callaghan, Prime Minister in 1978, at the Serpentine exhibition (See 0002718 and 0002719). The Shelter drawings are mentioned in 1940, and the 1926 chronology lists a Draped Reclining Figure.
Title as printed: The 20th Century: a pictorial history.
521(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Mentions Moore's death in 1986 with a photograph of the sculptor with James Callaghan, Prime Minister in 1978, at the Serpentine exhibition (See 0002718 and 0002719). The Shelter drawings are mentioned in 1940, and the 1926 chronology lists a Draped Reclining Figure.
Title as printed: The 20th Century: a pictorial history.
0005870
Author/Editor: LYNTON Norbert.
Publisher: Hamlyn
Place Published: London
Year: 1965
Date & Collation: 176pp(91 illus).113 colour plates.Glossary.Bibliog.
Description: Landmarks of the World's Art, 10.
13,129,134,164,Colour plate 77(1 illus) Henry Moore.
For 1981 Czech version see 0001793. For 1985 revision see 0000438.
13,129,134,164,Colour plate 77(1 illus) Henry Moore.
For 1981 Czech version see 0001793. For 1985 revision see 0000438.
0006101
Publisher: Hamlyn
Place Published: London
Year: 1964
Date & Collation: 287pp.Illus.Biog 266-285.
Description: Copyright Golden Press 1961. Painting, sculpture, architecture and ornament, from prehistoric times to the twentieth century.
258,259,278(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph and brief mention of a Reclining Figure, 1945-1946 elm wood; and nine-line biography.
258,259,278(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph and brief mention of a Reclining Figure, 1945-1946 elm wood; and nine-line biography.
0004041
Author/Editor: HARRIS Nathaniel.
Publisher: Hamlyn
Place Published: London
Year: 1973
Date & Collation: 121pp.Illus.
Description: an absolutely basic history of the world's art from cave painting to the present day. Written specially for people with no previous knowledge of the subject."
110111(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of a 1938 carving and brief mention of Moore as "the greatest living sculptor"."
110111(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of a 1938 carving and brief mention of Moore as "the greatest living sculptor"."
0004235
Author/Editor: FEZZI Elda.
Publisher: Hamlyn
Place Published: London
Year: 1972
Date & Collation: 97pp(83 illus).Biog 91-95.Bibliog 96-97.
Description: Distributed in the United States by Crown Publishers. Twentieth-Century Masters series. Copyright 1971 Sadea/Sansoni (Florence).
Moore and Contemporary Sculpture.
(Early modern sculptors, Moore's Yorkshire landscape, and other influences. Writings by Herbert Read and Moore's own early texts).
The Life of Matter and Form.
(Discovery of Roger Fry's Vision and Design, and Moore's earliest carvings).
New Images.
(Primitivism, Abstraction, Surrealism and symbolic archetypal images).
Sculpture and Architecture.
(Chacmool, Reclining Figures, Underground commission 1928 and Moore's views on the self-sufficiency of sculpture).
Perennial Human Symbolism.
(The development of Reclining Figures of the 1930s).
Relationship with Continental Experiments.
(Influence of Picasso, Miró and others on Moore in 1930s London).
The Manifesto Unit One.
(Discussion on Moore's statements on vitality, form, space, materials. The Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone).
Stringed Figures.
(Contrast between matter and geometry in the constructivist works of 1937-1940, contemporaneous with Surrealism).
Ghostly Dialogues.
(Animistic, magical character of his work, compared to De Chirico, seen particularly in drawings of 1939-1941).
Form and Space as a Continuum.
(The profound organic architecture" of Reclining Figures at the end of the 1930s their asymmetry and reference to distant past).
The Shelter Drawings.
(The richly significant formal qualities of the drawings full of ideas pursued in later sculptures. Re-establishment of human values previously noted in Giotto Masaccio Michelangelo).
The St. Matthew's Madonna.
(Compares briefly the terracotta sketches for the work. Moore "chose the one that contained dignity tranquility and expansiveness").
The Concept of the Family Group.
(Conflict of matter and form material and mass to achieve sublimity in their relationship is comparable with the explorations in the Reclining Figures. Origins in 1936 commission from Gropius for Impington School combined with Moore's knowledge of the historical iconography. Financial difficulties prevented execution of Impington project but Barclay School sculpture was realised in 1947).
The Influence of Matter.
(Use of plaster and wax through formal explorations in Family Groups led to Internal and External forms and ever-increasing link between figure and landscape).
A Boundless Creative Freedom.
(Three Standing Figures Helmet Heads Seated Figures the Time-Life works and other developments).
King and Queen.
(Historical connotations and strange melancholy. Contemporaneous with Warriors and other works of angst).
Object Sculptures in the Countryside.
(Upright Motives the U.N.E.S.C.O. Reclining Figure 1957-1958 travertine marble Divided Figures and a variety of other masterful forms).
The text is followed by forty pages of colour plates of sculpture a detailed biographical outline to 1971 and an extensive bibliography.
For German language edition see 0004236. For Italian edition see 0004466."
Moore and Contemporary Sculpture.
(Early modern sculptors, Moore's Yorkshire landscape, and other influences. Writings by Herbert Read and Moore's own early texts).
The Life of Matter and Form.
(Discovery of Roger Fry's Vision and Design, and Moore's earliest carvings).
New Images.
(Primitivism, Abstraction, Surrealism and symbolic archetypal images).
Sculpture and Architecture.
(Chacmool, Reclining Figures, Underground commission 1928 and Moore's views on the self-sufficiency of sculpture).
Perennial Human Symbolism.
(The development of Reclining Figures of the 1930s).
Relationship with Continental Experiments.
(Influence of Picasso, Miró and others on Moore in 1930s London).
The Manifesto Unit One.
(Discussion on Moore's statements on vitality, form, space, materials. The Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone).
Stringed Figures.
(Contrast between matter and geometry in the constructivist works of 1937-1940, contemporaneous with Surrealism).
Ghostly Dialogues.
(Animistic, magical character of his work, compared to De Chirico, seen particularly in drawings of 1939-1941).
Form and Space as a Continuum.
(The profound organic architecture" of Reclining Figures at the end of the 1930s their asymmetry and reference to distant past).
The Shelter Drawings.
(The richly significant formal qualities of the drawings full of ideas pursued in later sculptures. Re-establishment of human values previously noted in Giotto Masaccio Michelangelo).
The St. Matthew's Madonna.
(Compares briefly the terracotta sketches for the work. Moore "chose the one that contained dignity tranquility and expansiveness").
The Concept of the Family Group.
(Conflict of matter and form material and mass to achieve sublimity in their relationship is comparable with the explorations in the Reclining Figures. Origins in 1936 commission from Gropius for Impington School combined with Moore's knowledge of the historical iconography. Financial difficulties prevented execution of Impington project but Barclay School sculpture was realised in 1947).
The Influence of Matter.
(Use of plaster and wax through formal explorations in Family Groups led to Internal and External forms and ever-increasing link between figure and landscape).
A Boundless Creative Freedom.
(Three Standing Figures Helmet Heads Seated Figures the Time-Life works and other developments).
King and Queen.
(Historical connotations and strange melancholy. Contemporaneous with Warriors and other works of angst).
Object Sculptures in the Countryside.
(Upright Motives the U.N.E.S.C.O. Reclining Figure 1957-1958 travertine marble Divided Figures and a variety of other masterful forms).
The text is followed by forty pages of colour plates of sculpture a detailed biographical outline to 1971 and an extensive bibliography.
For German language edition see 0004236. For Italian edition see 0004466."
0004478
Author/Editor: BUSIGNANI Alberto.
Publisher: Hamlyn
Place Published: London
Year: 1971
Date & Collation: 96pp.Illus.Biog.Bibliog.
Description: Twentieth-Century Masters series. Copyright Sadea/Sansoni (Florence) 1968. Distributed in the U.S.A. by Crown Publishers. Includes a photograph of Henry Moore and Marino Marini together on page 88. Marini's Portrait of Moore, 1962 in coloured plaster is listed on page 90.
0004688
Author/Editor: SIBLIK Jirí.
Publisher: Hamlyn
Place Published: London
Year: 1970
Date & Collation: 155pp.Illus.Biog.Bibliog.
Description: Introduction, followed by documentation on 64 artists.
36-37(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Full-page reproduction in black and white of Eight Reclining Figures with Architectural Background, 1963 lithograph. Brief text on woman as symbol in Moore's work.
36-37(2 illus) Henry Moore.
Full-page reproduction in black and white of Eight Reclining Figures with Architectural Background, 1963 lithograph. Brief text on woman as symbol in Moore's work.
0002135
Publisher: Hamlyn
Place Published: London
Year: 1980
Date & Collation: 462pp.Illus.
Description: Art and Mankind. Updated edition of 1965 English version prepared from the French original L'Art et l'Homme, Copyright Paris 1961. Surveys and historical summaries of recent art.
290,364-365(4 illus) Henry Moore.
Brief outline of Moore's influences and themes in the section by Frank ELGAR entitled New Departures: These figures are severe pathetic tragic yet they evoke natural forms.""
290,364-365(4 illus) Henry Moore.
Brief outline of Moore's influences and themes in the section by Frank ELGAR entitled New Departures: These figures are severe pathetic tragic yet they evoke natural forms.""
0004839
Author/Editor: STURT-PENROSE Barrie.
Publisher: Hamlyn
Place Published: London
Year: 1969
Date & Collation: 159pp.Illus.
Description: Heavily illustrated survey of art market and personalities from perspective of London in the 1960s.
35,64,94-95,etc(4 illus) Henry Moore.
Note on Moore's status, and as a damn good form of investment". Outlines his life and career incorporating quotations from the artist.
There are a dozen or more passing references to Moore and the market prices of his works."
35,64,94-95,etc(4 illus) Henry Moore.
Note on Moore's status, and as a damn good form of investment". Outlines his life and career incorporating quotations from the artist.
There are a dozen or more passing references to Moore and the market prices of his works."
0005332
Author/Editor: MYERS Bernard S.
Publisher: Hamlyn
Place Published: London
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: 440pp.Illus.Glossary.Bibliog.
Description: Published in association with McGraw-Hill (New York). First edition 1957. Chronological survey of art from prehistoric times to the present.
382-383,397(1 illus).
Colour photograph of Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone across two pages, with a short commentary: the impression of erosion that has taken place through millenia.""
382-383,397(1 illus).
Colour photograph of Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone across two pages, with a short commentary: the impression of erosion that has taken place through millenia.""