Henry Moore Writings and Conversations

by Moore, Henry

• ISBN13: 9780520231610
• ISBN10: 0520231619
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

The highly articulate ruminations on art and on his own work, family, and colleagues by Henry Moore, one of the great sculptors of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Born in Toronto, Alan Wilkinson studied at the Courtauld Institute in London and wrote his PhD thesis on the drawings of Henry Moore. His publications include The Drawings of Henry Moore (1977), Gauguin to Moore (1981), Henry Moore Remembered (1987), and the two-volume catalogue raisonne The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz (1996, 2000)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	7	(1)
Foreword	8	(2)
Alan Bowness
Introduction: `Perfect Symmetry Is Death'	10	(21)
Alan Wilkinson
Life and Influences	31	(50)
Yorkshire 1898-1921	31	(13)
Family Life
Castleford
Yorkshiremen
Becoming a Sculptor
School
Literature
Teaching
Army
Leeds School of Art
London and Kent 1921-40	44	(17)
The British Museum
Royal College of Art
Travels
Travelling Scholarship 1925
Teaching at the Royal College of Art 1924-31
First One-Man Exhibition 1928
Irina
Kent
War
Hertfordshire 1940-86	61	(20)
Perry Green, Much Hadham
Studios
Irina's Garden
Family Events
Exhibitions
Refusal of a Knighthood
Travels
Italy: Querceta and Forte dei Marmi
Florence Exhibition 1972
Homage to T.S. Eliot
The Henry Moore Sculpture Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Henry Moore Foundation
Summing Up
Friends and Colleagues	81	(16)
Alfred Barr
John Desmond Bernal
Kenneth Clark
Nancy Cunard
T.S. Eliot
E.C. Gregory
Julina and Juliette Huxley
Henry Morris
Herbert Read
William Rothenstein
Curt Valentin
Anton Zwemmer
Art and Artists	97	(90)
Ancient, Medieval and Primitive Art	97	(14)
Pre-Columbian Sculpture
African Sculpture
Mesopotamian Art
Primitive Art
Tribal Sculpture
Cycladic Sculpture
Mesopotamian Art
Romanesque Sculpture
General Statements on Art	111	(13)
The Royal Academy of Arts
Abstraction
Abstract Art
Art and Eroticism
Art and Science
Art and the Subconscious
Classical and Romantic Elements in Art
Conflict
The Hidden Struggle
Modern Sculpture
Painter-Sculptors
Surrealism
Art and Society	124	(17)
Art and Life
Art and Religion
Art and Politics
Artists in Wartime
The Sculptor in Modern Society
On Critics and Art Criticism	141	(1)
Artists	142	(45)
Heinrich Braberder
Constantin Bransusi
Paul Cezanne
Salvador Dali
Donatello
Jacob Epstein
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Alberto Giacometti
Mathias Grunewald
Barbara Hepworth
Masaccio
Michelangelo
Joan Miro
Ben Nicholson
Pablo Picasso
John Piper
Giovanni Pisano
Rembrandt
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Ceri Richards
Auguste Rodin
Mark Rothko
Graham Sutherland
J.M.W. Turner
On Sculpture	187	(64)
Articles and Interviews 1930-37	187	(11)
A View of Sculpture
On Carving
Unit One
Circle
The Sculptor Speaks
The Nature of Sculpture	198	(14)
General Statements
Truth to Material
Space and Form
Holes
Size and Scale
Tactile Experiences
Subjects and Sources of Inspiration	212	(10)
Reclining Figure
Mother and Child
Internal-External Forms
Titles
New Ideas
The Human Figure
Natural Forms
Materials	222	(8)
Stone
Wood
Clay
Plaster
Polystyrene
Concrete
Bronze
Fibreglass
Working Methods	230	(12)
Carving and Modelling
Bronze and Lead Casting
Drawing
Etching and Lithography
Sculpture and Architecture	242	(3)
Sculptures in Landscape	245	(6)
Works	251	(60)
Henry Moore
Bibliographical Sources	311	(1)
Index of Works	312	(2)
Henry Moore
General Index	314	(6)
Picture Credits	320