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Author/Editor: GARDINER Juliet
Publisher: Harper Press
Place Published: London
Year: 2010
Date & Collation: xvi.431pp.Illus.After.Acknowledgements.Notes.Bibliography.Index.
Description: Book written by historian and commentator on British social history. 85 GARDINER describes Moore's drawings of underground shelters, the picture of mass humanity sleeping in the tube" as one of the most iconic images along with the dome of St Paul's Cathedral wreathed in smoke during the raid on 29 December 1040. 157-8 Moore quoted that he found it hard "to get my attitude to war clear and satisfactory even to myself". Description of Moore in Belsize Park underground station durina an air raid. Reference to the War Artists Advisory Committee. Clark described Moore's drawings: "The tube shelters gave Henry Moore a subject that humanised his classical feeling for the recumbent figure and led to a series of drawings which will I am certain always be considered the greatest works of art inspired by the war". Criticism of Moore's drawings by painter Keith Vaughan finding the drawings of Edward Ardizzone more empathetic."