The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life

0024027 The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life Thomas S. Davis Columbia University Press New York

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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.