- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press (31 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520231619
- ISBN-13: 978-0520231610
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 2.1 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 583,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- See Complete Table of Contents
| ||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £1.75
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £1.75, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
Suitable for scholars and for Moore enthusiasts worldwide, this text completes and complements the catalogues of his sculpture, drawings and prints.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.co.uk.
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
3 reviews
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
A must read for any Moore enthusiast
27 Nov 2002
Format:Hardcover
Editor Alan Wilkinson was a close friend of Henry Moore, and it shows in the care he put into editing this book. Other than the introduction, entitled "Perfect Symmetry is Death", Wilkinson allowed Moore to speak for himself by drawing from the man's own words, through interviews, articles, letters, and even scribblings in his notebooks.
The chapters are arranged under the following headings: "Ch. 1: Life and Influences", "Ch. 2: Friends and Colleagues", "Ch. 3: Art and Artists", "Ch. 4: On Sculpture", and "Ch. 5: Works by Henry Moore". Bibliographical sources, list of Moore's most well known work, and a general keyword index can be found in the back.
Because interviews Moore gave in 1973 might refer to events from his childhood, Wilkinson took care to put as much of the artist's words into context by surrounding it with other relevant quotations. For example, on page 35, the passage that begins with "In Castleford, where I was born, there are what called sand holes. They're caves where the sand has been excavated" (1973) is followed by "What is a cave? A cave is a shape. It's not the lump of mountain over it" (1962).
With a foreword by Alan Bowness. Overall, a very compelling read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
More to Moore than inventing the hole
9 Jan 2007
Format:Paperback
My interest in this book came about because Henry Moore is often quoted as saying something like "make it! don't talk about it"; given that, how come there is a substantial book of his writing and conversations?
In fairness to Moore most of the entries in this book come from his journals and lecture notes rather than published works.
What makes this book so very interesting is Moore's plain speaking about many of the highly complicated issues of art making.
I was left with the overwhealming feeling that it would be very nice if contemporary art writers abandoned their incomprehensible elitist academic style in favour of Moore's no less intellectual but ifinitely more readable approach.
In fairness to Moore most of the entries in this book come from his journals and lecture notes rather than published works.
What makes this book so very interesting is Moore's plain speaking about many of the highly complicated issues of art making.
I was left with the overwhealming feeling that it would be very nice if contemporary art writers abandoned their incomprehensible elitist academic style in favour of Moore's no less intellectual but ifinitely more readable approach.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Don't pass by!
23 May 2002
Format:Hardcover
The best book available for all Moore fans and those who want to be...
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
