Celebrating Moore

Celebrating Moore
Title Celebrating Moore PDF eBook
Author Henry Moore
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 373
Release 1998
Genre Art
ISBN 0520216709

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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Henry Moore's birth, this book features the most important and comprehensive single group of Moore's Drawings, graphics, and sculpture. More than 300 of Moore's acclaimed works are reproduced, along with fresh insights and personal anecdotes by colleagues. 290 color illustrations.

Henry Moore, Sculpting the 20th Century

Henry Moore, Sculpting the 20th Century
Title Henry Moore, Sculpting the 20th Century PDF eBook
Author Dorothy M. Kosinski
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 332
Release 2001-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0300089929

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Henry Moore (1898-1986) is arguably one of the most famous and beloved sculptors of the twentieth century, yet in recent decades his work has fallen out of favor in the world of contemporary art criticism. This handsome book examines this intriguing contradiction and seeks to reassess Moore's crucial contribution to art of the last century. Looking at Moore's early engagements with primitivism, his 1930s dialogue with abstraction and surrealism, and his postwar interest in large-scale public sculpture, the authors show how the sculptor helped to define some of the most significant aspects of modernism. The authors also contextualize within the polemics of early modernism Moore's emphasis on direct carving instead of modeling and the necessary balance between abstraction and what he called the "psychological human element". Moore's early sculpture -- largely unfamiliar to the general public -- is given particular attention, enabling the reader to explore the evolution of thematic and formal elements in his work and his ongoing response to different materials. Photographs, some by Moore himself, of over 120 works, including plasters, maquettes, carvings, bronzes, and drawings, are featured, many of which are previously unpublished.

Henry Moore

Henry Moore
Title Henry Moore PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey Grigson
Publisher
Pages 16
Release 1944
Genre
ISBN

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Henry Moore at the British Museum

Henry Moore at the British Museum
Title Henry Moore at the British Museum PDF eBook
Author Henry Moore
Publisher New York : H.N. Abrams
Pages 140
Release 1982
Genre Art
ISBN

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Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook

Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook
Title Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook PDF eBook
Author Henry Moore
Publisher
Pages 112
Release 2009
Genre Sheep in art
ISBN 9780500600382

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In February 1972 Henry Moores sculpture studios in the English countryside at Much Hadham were filled with the preparations for his retrospective exhibition in Florence. In search of peace and quiet, he went into a smaller room overlooking the fields where a local farmer grazed his sheep. The sheep came very close to the window, attracting his attention, and he began to draw them. Initially he saw them as nothing more than four-legged balls of wool, but his vision changed as he explored what they were really like the way they moved, the shape of their bodies under the fleece. They also developed strong human and biblical associations, and the sight of a ewe with her lamb evoked the mother-and-child theme a large form sheltering a small one which has been important to Henry Moore in all his work. He drew the sheep again that summer after they were shorn, when he could see the shapes of the bodies which had been covered by wool. Solid in form, sudden and vigorous in movement, Henry Moores sheep are created through a network of swirling and zigzagging lines in the rapid (and in Moores hands) sensitive medium of ballpoint pen. The effect is both familiar and monumental; as Lord Clark comments, We expect Henry Moore to give a certain nobility to everything he draws; but more surprising is the way in which these drawings express a feeling of real affection for their subject.

Henry Moore

Henry Moore
Title Henry Moore PDF eBook
Author Henry Moore
Publisher Sterling
Pages 0
Release 1999
Genre Sculptors
ISBN 9781855857353

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"...suddenly the most commonplace objects came to have for me such significance that they no longer existed as just objects, but as shape and form in space."--Henry Moore. One of the world's greatest sculptors and a renowned photographer--close friends for thirty years--combine forces to provide insight into what makes a great creative artist. Part personal history and part stunning presentation of Moore's work and inspirations, striking photographs show his major sculptures and collected art, as well as the landscape and natural forms that indelibly influenced him. Compare Moore's own sculpted masks with the African and Mexican tribal pieces he so admires, or his figures--filled with energy--with Hedgecoe's nude studies. Close-ups focus in on small, fine details. Plus: a treasured glimpse of Moore in his workshop. 208 pages (16 in color), 230 b/w illus., 8 1/8 x 11 3/8.

Bill Brandt | Henry Moore

Bill Brandt | Henry Moore
Title Bill Brandt | Henry Moore PDF eBook
Author Martina Droth
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 0
Release 2020
Genre Art
ISBN 9780300251050

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Accompanies the exhibition co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, shown June 5-September 13, 2020, the Hepworth, Wakefield, shown February 7-May 3, 2020, and the Sainsbury Center, University of East Anglia, shown November 22, 2020-February 28, 2021.