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Henry Moore on his wartime shelter drawings

Edwin Mullins talks to Henry Moore about how his drawings of sleeping figures in underground stations during World War II air raids influenced his later work. He tries to draw the artist out on the subjects of having lived through two world wars and being gassed during World War I, but Moore insists it was the uniquely quiet sense of drama and doom that impressed him about the shelters.

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