cover image Henry Moore: Sculpting the Twentieth Century

Henry Moore: Sculpting the Twentieth Century

Dorothy M. Kosinski. Yale University Press, $70 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-300-08992-9

Making its case right from the title, Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century argues for the popular English sculptor's continued primacy. Edited by Dallas Museum of Art curator Dorothy Kosinski, and serving as the catalogue for an exhibition currently touring the U.S., the book covers the artist's entire career, from his early primitivism to his 1930s surrealism to his post-war public art. Photos of over 120 of Moore's suggestively abstract plasters, carvings, bronzes and drawings grace the pages of the book, along with scholarly essays from Moore proponents. ( June)