Authors: Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (Editor), Alan Bowness
ISBN-13: 9780520231610, ISBN-10: 0520231619
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Born in Toronto, Alan Wilkinson studied at the Courtauld
Institute of Art, and wrote his Ph.D thesis on the drawings of Henry Moore. Dr. Wilkinson's publications include The Drawings of Henry Moore (1977), Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture (1981), Henry Moore Remembered (1987), Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective (coauthor) (1994), and the two-volume catalogue raisonné The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz (1996 and 2000).
"For both admirers and students of Henry Moore's work, this book will be a blessing. Moore's humanity and intelligence make this compendium a plea-sure to dip into as well as scholarly and comprehensive."Roger Berthoud, author of The Life of Henry Moore
"Alan Wilkinson has trawled the rich material with exemplary thoroughness. . .. The nature and purpose of Moore's writing is illuminated. The introduction reflects Wilkinson's long friendship with Moore, and the commentary and notes testify to a remarkable knowledge of the artist's work, his circle and his ideas."Sir Alan Bowness, editor of the Henry Moore Complete Sculpture Series
Acknowledgements | 7 | |
Foreword | 8 | |
Introduction: 'Perfect Symmetry Is Death' | 10 | |
Ch. 1 | Life and Influences | 31 |
Yorkshire 1898-1921 | 31 | |
London and Kent 1921-40 | 44 | |
Hertfordshire 1940-86 | 61 | |
Ch. 2 | Friends and Colleagues | 81 |
Ch. 3 | Art and Artists | 97 |
Ancient, Medieval and Primitive Art | 97 | |
General Statements on Art | 111 | |
Art and Society | 124 | |
On Critics and Art Criticism | 141 | |
Artists | 142 | |
Ch. 4 | On Sculpture | 187 |
Articles and Interviews 1930-37 | 187 | |
The Nature of Sculpture | 198 | |
Subjects and Sources of Inspiration | 212 | |
Materials | 222 | |
Working Methods | 230 | |
Sculpture and Architecture | 242 | |
Sculpture in Landscape | 245 | |
Ch. 5 | Works | 251 |
Bibliographical Sources | 311 | |
Index of Works | 312 | |
General Index | 314 | |
Picture credits | 320 |