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The Writing of AnxietyBombs, Birth and Trauma: Henry Moore and D.W. Winnicott

The Writing of Anxiety: Bombs, Birth and Trauma: Henry Moore and D.W. Winnicott [Inez Holden’s painter friend was not the only one to note that the war had turned the world surreal in 1940s Britain. ‘No dream is worse than the reality in which we live’, thundered a special triple issue of the London Bulletin, the journal of British Surrealism in its call to arms against Hitler in June 1940. ‘No reality’ it added ‘is as good as our dreams.’3 This issue of the Bulletin coincided with the exhibition, ‘Surrealism Today’, held in the Zwemmer Gallery in London between June and July 1940. The show included photographs of Max Ernst‘s House at St Martin d’Ardèche, ‘rebuilt and decorated in collaboration with Leonora Carrington’, and work by Roland Penrose, Eileen Agar, Edward Burra, Len Lye, Paul Nash and Lee Miller. Two of Henry Moore’s reclining figures were also there, one lead and one elm, along with five more of his sculptures, including The Helmet and Fire-Engine. France had just fallen. Barely three months after the opening of the show the blitzkrieg turned into the Blitz and the war — which had taken some time to get there — had finally arrived on the British home front.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Writing of AnxietyBombs, Birth and Trauma: Henry Moore and D.W. Winnicott

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
ISBN
978-1-349-28456-6
Pages
75 –91
DOI
10.1057/9780230592025_5
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[Inez Holden’s painter friend was not the only one to note that the war had turned the world surreal in 1940s Britain. ‘No dream is worse than the reality in which we live’, thundered a special triple issue of the London Bulletin, the journal of British Surrealism in its call to arms against Hitler in June 1940. ‘No reality’ it added ‘is as good as our dreams.’3 This issue of the Bulletin coincided with the exhibition, ‘Surrealism Today’, held in the Zwemmer Gallery in London between June and July 1940. The show included photographs of Max Ernst‘s House at St Martin d’Ardèche, ‘rebuilt and decorated in collaboration with Leonora Carrington’, and work by Roland Penrose, Eileen Agar, Edward Burra, Len Lye, Paul Nash and Lee Miller. Two of Henry Moore’s reclining figures were also there, one lead and one elm, along with five more of his sculptures, including The Helmet and Fire-Engine. France had just fallen. Barely three months after the opening of the show the blitzkrieg turned into the Blitz and the war — which had taken some time to get there — had finally arrived on the British home front.]

Published: Oct 6, 2015

Keywords: Birth Trauma; Birth Experience; Anxious Feeling; Home Front; Tube Shelter

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