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Children Asleep in the Underground: The Tube Shelters of Brandt and Moore.
- Source :
- Cambridge Quarterly; 2007, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p295-316, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- This article re-examines what historian Angus Calder has called the Myth of the Blitz, focussing upon the figure central to this Myth - the child asleep in the Underground. Images by Bill Brandt and Henry Moore are considered, as well as material by Graham Greene and Elizabeth Bowen, in order to understand a seminal moment in the history of modern British culture: the formation of a new, modernist aesthetic that was to play an integral part in the post-war transformation of the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BRITISH history
WORLD War II campaigns
WAR & society
POPULAR culture
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Details
- Language :
- German
- ISSN :
- 0008199X
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Cambridge Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28717248
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfm026