John Hedgecoe – A Monumental Vision; The Sculpture of Henry Moore – First Edition 1988

A first edition, first printing of A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore by John Hedgecoe, published by Collins and Brown, London in 1998. A fine copy, boards bound in publisher’s original black cloth with silver titling to the spine, free from internal inscriptions. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with some pushing to extremities and light shelf-wear to front and rear panel.

A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore by John Hedgecoe is a photographic and critical study of Moore’s work, emphasising scale, form and landscape. Through striking images and informed commentary, Hedgecoe shows how Moore’s abstracted human figures engage space, light and nature. The book explores Moore’s belief in sculpture as a public, humanistic art, revealing how his monumental bronzes balance mass and void while expressing timeless themes of shelter, vulnerability and endurance.