文档介绍：BOSTOIM PUBLIC LIBRARY HENRY MOORE ATTHE BRITISH MUSEUM HENRY MOORE AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM BYHENRY MOORE Photographs byDavid Finn Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York Acknowledgments paid seven or eight private visits tothe British Museum inthe making of this book and as atthe tune had injured my back, decicied touse awheelchair. To go round the galleries when they areempty of people, in awheelchair, with no physical effort to oneself, mend toeverybody asthe perfect way to visit a museum. am very grateful tomy fellow Dr . Wilson, Director, to his assistant Miss Marjorie Caygill and tothe security warders, formaking these visits possible. The Keeper of each department was available pany me and togive me his expert knowledge when needed - and also, unlike the ordinary visitor, was privileged actually tohandle some of the smaller works, objects had admired onmy first visits tothe British Museum asastudent sixty years ago. For this pleasure, therefore, would like tothank Mr B. , Keeper ofCreek andRoman Antiquities, Mr . James, Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities and Mr M. , Keeper ofEthnography, The Museum of Mankind. And of course toDavid Finn gomy warm thanks tor the immense amount oftime and trouble he has taken with the photography. . @ 1981 Henry Moore Library ofCongress Catalog Card Number: 81-523 International Standard Book Number: 0-8109-1340-2 Published 1982 by Harry , Incorporated, New York. All rights reserved. No part of the contents ofbook may be reproduced without the written permission of the publishers Designed byJames Shurmer SetMonophoto Bembo and printed Great Britain by W. Cowell Ltd, Ipswich Frontispiece Henry Moore outside the British Museum 1980 CONTENTS Introduction byHenry Moore page 7 Photographing with Henry Moore byDavid Finn 17 Biographical Notes 21 The Plates mentary byHenry Moore Egyptian Sculpture 26 Greek Sculpture 42 Aztec Sculpture 64 Oceanic Sculpture 76 African Sculpture g2 American and