Like no other artist, Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) sought the challenge of the monumental and made the outdoors the playing field for his artistic creativity. In its handsome horizontal format, this volume puts Moore's large sculptures center stage and visuali zes the British artist's sources of inspiration from the Renaissance to Modernism. Central to Moore's art is the monumentalization of natural forms and the integration of the figure into the landscape. Impressive installation views show his sculptures in d ialogue with Richard Meier's museum architecture and, in doing so, reinterpret Moore's fundamental theme of the interplay between sculpture, architecture, and nature. In addition to nature, the conception of man in the art of the Renaissance was an essenti al source of inspiration for the artist. Important impulses also came from immediate predecessors - above all Aristide Maillol and Auguste Rodin - as well as from his contemporary, Jean Arp, to whom drawing on nature was similarly paramount.

Im Zentrum von Moores Schaffen stehen die Umwandlung von Naturformen ins Große und die Einbindung der Figur in die Landschaft. Eindrucksvolle Installationsaufnahmen zeigen seine Skulpturen im Dialog mit Richard Meiers Museumsarchitektur und interpretieren so Moores Grundthema der Wechselwirkung zwischen Skulptur, Architektur und Natur neu. Neben der Natur war das Menschenbild der Renaissancekunst eine essenzielle Inspirationsquelle für den Künstler. Wichtige Impulse gingen auch von seinen direkten Vorläufern aus, allen voran Aristide Maillol und Auguste Rodin, sowie von seinem Weggefährten Hans Arp, mit dem ihn das Schöpfen aus der Natur verband.