Screen LibraryInvisible colors : the arts of the atomic age /
The effects of radiation are invisible, but art can make it and its effects visible. Artwork created in response to the events of the nuclear era allow us to see them in a different way. In this book, the author explores the atomic age from the perspective of the arts, investigating atomic-related a...
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leonardo
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| Summary: |
The effects of radiation are invisible, but art can make it and its effects visible. Artwork created in response to the events of the nuclear era allow us to see them in a different way. In this book, the author explores the atomic age from the perspective of the arts, investigating atomic-related art inspired by the work of Marie Curie, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the disaster at Fukushima, and other episodes in nuclear history. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-440) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262038546 0262038544 |
| Index Number: | N72 |
| CLC: | J0-05 |
| Call Number: | J0-05/D291 |
| Contents: | I. An overview of the arts of the atomic age from Marie Curie to Fukushima. 1. From Marie Curie to Hiroshima ; 2. From Hiroshima to Fukushima -- II. Hiroshima and the colorless paintings. 3. A-bomb literature's dark radiance and modernism ; 4. Censorship in A-bomb literature and photography - or the story of Oiwa ; 5. The mainly dramjatic art of representing the military men adn scientists -- III. Tonight no poetry will serve : Godzilla and other cold war monstrosities. 6. Under the ashes of the conch shells, the Bikini and Moruroa Atolls ; 7. Mining glories and fueling Western modernity : a |