Children Asleep in the Underground: The Tube Shelters of Brandt and Moore

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 und...

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Published in:	Cambridge quarterly 2007-01, Vol.36 (4), p.295-316
Main Author:	Ashford, David
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1898-1986 1900-1999 aerial warfare Art and the war Authors Blitz Brand image Brandt, Bill Childhood Children Criticism and interpretation Eliot, T. S England English Literature Fear Four Quartets (Burnt Norton East Coker The Dry Salvages Little Gidding) Greene, Graham illustration Image tubes Infants London Memory Moore, Henry Mothers Photography refuge subway The Ministry of Fear Tunnels Twentieth Century Underground Visual Arts World War II World War, 1939-1945
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Summary:	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.
ISSN:	0008-199X 1471-6836 1471-6836