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Goslar Warrior
0006852
Author/Editor: GROHMANN Will.
Publisher: Abrams
Place Published: New York
Year: 1960
Date & Collation: 279pp(Over 222 illus).Biog.Bibliog.
Description: Originally published by Rembrandt Verlag under the title Henry Moore (See 0006853). For Thames and Hudson edition see 0006851. For Readers Union edition see 0005608. Published in Italy by Saggiatore. Important and heavily-illustrated study which incorporates twelve colour plates of drawings.
Meeting with Henry Moore.
(Outlines Moore's working life-style. There is no luxury anywhere. He receives his guests with the ease of a man who owes his freedom to his work").
Youth and Education.
(Biographical outline 1898-1920s. "An inner necessity directed and guided Moore on his visits to the British Museum to the ancient and mythological." Importance of Roger Fry's Vision and Design).
Early Impressions. Thoughts on Sculpture.
(Summarises Moore's early writings with quotations. Primitive art in the British Museum Natural objects and the artist's vision).
The First Ten Years 1922-1932.
("The astonishing thing is the monumental effect of these early works in relation to their real size..." Individual works Mother and Child theme. "He was overflowing with sculptural ideas and struggling to realize them").
The Reclining Figure 1929-1958.
("To Henry Moore the Reclining Figures are no mere external objects he identifies himself with them as well as the earth and the whole realm of motherhood...the composition grows increasingly mature." Discusses individual works and styles: Chacmool abstraction "The hole is the intended form and the stone contains it". Works in wood and bronze Classical images U.N.E.S.C.O. Reclining Figure 1957-1958 travertine marble).
The Abstract Compositions and the String Figures.
("Moore is not an abstract artist; he is abstract in some of his works only by comparison with the more representational and symbolic ones").
Figures Heads and Helmets.
(Discusses individual works within the context of war-time imagery and as Internal and External forms).
Shelter Drawings. Northampton Madonna. Family Groups. Mother and Child.
(War Drawings Madonna and Child 1943-1944 Hornton stone other individual works).
The Three Standing Figures in Battersea Park.
(Three Standing Figures 1947-1948 Darley Dale stone as Clotho Lachesis and Atropos the three Fates but with Celtic overtones).
King and Queen.
(King and Queen 1952-1953 bronze as a mythological couple with origins in fairy stories and Egyptian art. "This is the highwater mark in Moore's creative work").
Sculpture on Buildings.
(Description of Time-Life Screen 1952-1953 Portland stone commission also Wall Relief 1955 brick.
Standing Figures and Glenkiln Crosses.
(Late classical theme in Standing Figure 1950 bronze Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross 1955-1956 bronze which "stands beside a loch in the Highlands as if it had stood there through the ages and was not the work of human hands; or if of human origin at all then made so long ago it had been forgotten". It dominates the landscape "in the way in which a Christian cross stands watch...").
The Warrior.
("This is how the chroniclers of the Trojan War saw heroes").
The Seated Figure as a Subject.
("The relaxed figures tend toward the classical the tense ones toward the demonic")
Latest Works 1959.
("The shapes change but the relationship between man and eternity remains and demands expression in new and modern forms").
The Sculptor Henry Moore.
("The pattern that underlies his work the formative energy that permeates everything has remained the same; each of his carvings and models is a Moore and he has been fortified against influences of all kinds by his original attachment to nature and time")."
Meeting with Henry Moore.
(Outlines Moore's working life-style. There is no luxury anywhere. He receives his guests with the ease of a man who owes his freedom to his work").
Youth and Education.
(Biographical outline 1898-1920s. "An inner necessity directed and guided Moore on his visits to the British Museum to the ancient and mythological." Importance of Roger Fry's Vision and Design).
Early Impressions. Thoughts on Sculpture.
(Summarises Moore's early writings with quotations. Primitive art in the British Museum Natural objects and the artist's vision).
The First Ten Years 1922-1932.
("The astonishing thing is the monumental effect of these early works in relation to their real size..." Individual works Mother and Child theme. "He was overflowing with sculptural ideas and struggling to realize them").
The Reclining Figure 1929-1958.
("To Henry Moore the Reclining Figures are no mere external objects he identifies himself with them as well as the earth and the whole realm of motherhood...the composition grows increasingly mature." Discusses individual works and styles: Chacmool abstraction "The hole is the intended form and the stone contains it". Works in wood and bronze Classical images U.N.E.S.C.O. Reclining Figure 1957-1958 travertine marble).
The Abstract Compositions and the String Figures.
("Moore is not an abstract artist; he is abstract in some of his works only by comparison with the more representational and symbolic ones").
Figures Heads and Helmets.
(Discusses individual works within the context of war-time imagery and as Internal and External forms).
Shelter Drawings. Northampton Madonna. Family Groups. Mother and Child.
(War Drawings Madonna and Child 1943-1944 Hornton stone other individual works).
The Three Standing Figures in Battersea Park.
(Three Standing Figures 1947-1948 Darley Dale stone as Clotho Lachesis and Atropos the three Fates but with Celtic overtones).
King and Queen.
(King and Queen 1952-1953 bronze as a mythological couple with origins in fairy stories and Egyptian art. "This is the highwater mark in Moore's creative work").
Sculpture on Buildings.
(Description of Time-Life Screen 1952-1953 Portland stone commission also Wall Relief 1955 brick.
Standing Figures and Glenkiln Crosses.
(Late classical theme in Standing Figure 1950 bronze Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross 1955-1956 bronze which "stands beside a loch in the Highlands as if it had stood there through the ages and was not the work of human hands; or if of human origin at all then made so long ago it had been forgotten". It dominates the landscape "in the way in which a Christian cross stands watch...").
The Warrior.
("This is how the chroniclers of the Trojan War saw heroes").
The Seated Figure as a Subject.
("The relaxed figures tend toward the classical the tense ones toward the demonic")
Latest Works 1959.
("The shapes change but the relationship between man and eternity remains and demands expression in new and modern forms").
The Sculptor Henry Moore.
("The pattern that underlies his work the formative energy that permeates everything has remained the same; each of his carvings and models is a Moore and he has been fortified against influences of all kinds by his original attachment to nature and time")."
0006862
Author/Editor: WHITTICK Arnold.
Publisher: Leonard Hill
Place Published: London
Year: 1960
Date & Collation: xvi,408pp.Illus.72 plates.Bibliog.
Description: Scholarly study of visual symbolism.
359,361,Plate 57(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of Warrior with Shield, 1953-1954 bronze and brief mention with quotation from Moore, in a chapter on Sculpture, on the work's powerful symbolic expression of the artist's feelings about England at a crucial time of the war.
359,361,Plate 57(1 illus) Henry Moore.
Photograph of Warrior with Shield, 1953-1954 bronze and brief mention with quotation from Moore, in a chapter on Sculpture, on the work's powerful symbolic expression of the artist's feelings about England at a crucial time of the war.
0006871
Publisher: Cannon Hill Park
Place Published: Birmingham
Year: 1960
Date & Collation: (30 April-14 May).24pp(8 illus).Biog.Introduction by Ronald PICKVANCE.
Description: Arts Council of Great Britain open air exhibition travelling to Barnsley, Manchester, Stratford-upon-Avon, Edinburgh and Cheltenham until 8 October 1960. 24 works by 24 artists.
19,21(1 illus) Henry Moore: Falling Warrior, 1956-1957 bronze.
19,21(1 illus) Henry Moore: Falling Warrior, 1956-1957 bronze.