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jsjammersmith's review
5.0
Moore and Bacon seem to me to be the perfect pairing, and yet these two artists only ever appeared separately on my radar. Henry Moore's sculpture was about experimenting with the human form in the medium of sculpture, and while Bacon's work remained two dimensional through the corse of his career, Richard Calvocoressi has managed to place these two artists side by side to great effect to observe how their work not only reflected their modernist attitudes towards presentation of the human form, but their works both reveal a concern for the elements of sculpture and composition.
This collection reveals both men as artists concerned with how the human form could be recreated and molded into new forms, and Calvocoressi is successful in showing how the classical tradition of sculpture influenced and informed these artists, giving them structures to build upon and reinvent simultaneously. It's a shame more lists of books about Bacon do not list this book.
Required reading for any student of Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, of the representations of the human body that were beginning to develop in the 20th century.
This collection reveals both men as artists concerned with how the human form could be recreated and molded into new forms, and Calvocoressi is successful in showing how the classical tradition of sculpture influenced and informed these artists, giving them structures to build upon and reinvent simultaneously. It's a shame more lists of books about Bacon do not list this book.
Required reading for any student of Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, of the representations of the human body that were beginning to develop in the 20th century.
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