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The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life

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The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life
The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life
The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life
Bib. Number0023660

The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life

Author/EditorDAVIS Thomas S.
Place PublishedNew York
Year
Date & Collation307pp.illus.
LanguageEnglish
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Cover illustration is War: Possible Subjects (HMF 1603). Brief mentions of Moore pp.24, 27. More substantial discussion in chapter 4, "War Gothic": an investigation of the gothic in art during the war years, and its relationship to Britain's insecurity and vulnerability at the time. Especially discusses Moore's Shelter Drawings, with illus. of Women and Children in the Tube, War: Possible Subjects, Two Sleeping Figures and Figure Pinned Under Debris, Wrecked Omnibus and Figures in Underground Shelter, Blitzed Buildings and Sleeping Woman Holding Child, Half-Length Standing Woman in Front of Wall, and Head Made Up of Devestated House.