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Henry Moore: Late Large Forms - Softcover

Feldman, Anita; Wagner, Ann

 
9780847840175: Henry Moore: Late Large Forms
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0847840174 ISBN 13: 9780847840175
Verlag: Gagosian / Rizzoli, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

"Everything I do, I intend to make on a large scale . . . Size itself has its own impact, and physically we can relate ourselves more strongly to a big sculpture than to a small one." —Henry Moore It was Moore’s intention that these large-scale forms be interacted with, viewed close-up, and even touched. In order that their heft and mass be perceived in a myriad of settings, they were most commonly placed outdoors, subject to the effects of changing light, seasons, and terrain. Within the controlled white environment of the gallery space, the sheer volume and mammoth proportions of the sculptures are more keenly felt. Brimming with latent energy, their richly textured surfaces and sensual, rippling arcs and concavities can be seen to new effect.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Henry Moore (July 30, 1898–August 31, 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semiabstract monumental bronze sculptures, which are located around the world in museums and as public works of art. His sculptures and drawings have also been the subject of many museum exhibitions and retrospectives worldwide. Anita Feldman is the curator of The Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green. Ann Wagner is a writer, critic, professor, and art historian. She is The Henry Moore Foundation Research Curator at the Tate, and her writing has appeared in such journals as Artforum and October.

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This book accompanies Gagosian Gallery's exhibition of Henry Moore's large-scale sculptures. Moore's large-scale sculptures celebrated the beauty and power of organic forms at a time when traditional representation was largely eschewed by the vanguard art establishment. Their prodigious size and forceful presence have an overwhelming physicality that promotes a charged relation between sculpture, site, and viewer. In Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 2 (1960) the rough texture of the patinated dark sur

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Verlag
Gagosian / Rizzoli
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0847840174
ISBN 13 
9780847840175
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
182
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