Henry Moore in America (Sculpture Art Ebook) pdf torrent

Pdf / English / 1973 / 283 pages / 33.4 MB

HenryJ. Selciis

Henry Moore traces the advent of his international reputation to the 1946-47 Museum of Modern Art retrospective, the contacts that led up to it, and the events that stemmed from it. More than two-thirds of Moore's sculptures and drawings were in American and Canadian collections, both public and private, when he celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday this year.

Through lengthy conversations with the artist, his long-time American friends, and more recent admirers among curators, collectors, critics, and architects, Henry Moore in America attempts to reconstruct the highlights of Moore's transatlantic connections while sharing observations about the artist and his work culled from private correspondence and published evaluations