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0009244

Author/Editor: GRIGSON Geoffrey.

Publisher: Axis

Place Published: London

Year: 1935

Date & Collation: 1 1935(Jan) 8-11(1 Moore illus).

Description: Summary of approaches to Abstract Art in contemporary English artists, including Moore. There is a full-page photograph of Four Piece Composition: Reclining Figure, 1934 Cumberland alabaster, while the text on Moore is: Product of the multiform inventive artist abstraction-surrealism nearly in control; of a constructor of images between the conscious and the unconscious and between what we perceive and what we project emotionally into the objects of our world; of the one English sculptor of large imaginative power of which he is almost master; the biomorphist producing viable work with all the technique he requires." With Wyndham Lewis Moore is also described as "the only English artists of maturity in control of enough imaginative power to settle themselves actively between the new preraphaelites of Minotaure and the unconscious nihilists of extreme geometric abstraction".
For 1968 reprint of Axis see 0005084."

0009234

Publisher: Everyman Hampstead

Place Published: London

Year: 1935

Date & Collation: (11-24 Nov).4pp(5 illus).Text by S.John WOODS.

Description: Works by Henry Moore and four other artists exhibited in the foyer of the Everyman Cinema. Two abstract films were being screened, and Axis was on sale. The text is in the form of an imaginary dialogue between a layman and an art critic. The Moore photograph is of Four Piece Composition: Reclining Figure, 1934 Cumberland alabaster.

0009237

Publisher: Zwemmer Gallery

Place Published: London

Year: 1935

Date & Collation: (2-22 Oct).Folded poster/leaflet(8 illus).

Description: List of ten artists, with photograph number 7 depicting Moore's Four Piece Composition: Reclining Figure, 1934 Cumberland alabaster.
Title as printed: 7 and 5.

0009251

Author/Editor: MOORE Henry.

Publisher: Listener

Place Published: London

Year: 1935

Date & Collation: (5 June) Cover,944-946(6 illus).

Description: Mr Henry Moore the well known sculptor reviews in this article a recently published book on Mesopotamian art": Christian Zervos. L'Art de la Mésopotamie (Cahiers d'Art/Zwemmer).We need to look at them as sculpture for once a good piece of sculpture has been produced even if it was made like the palaeolithic Venuses 20000 years ago it is real and a part of life here and now to those sensitive and open enough to feel and perceive it...For me Sumerian sculpture ranks with Early Greek Etruscan Ancient Mexican Fourth and Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian and Romanesque and early Gothic sculpture as the great sculpture of the world. It shows a richness of feeling for life and its wonder and mystery... It has a bigness and simplicity with no decorative trimmings...Their sculpture in the round is still and static no physical movement or action is attempted for one of the essential facts about a block of stone is its weight and immovability. But in their reliefs we find actual movement and action portrayed for work in relief is akin to drawing and it is an easy attribute of line to flow and move..."
Reprinted in Henry Moore on Sculpture (See 0005627). For German version see 0007039."