Art And Activism In The Nuclear Age

Author : Roman Rosenbaum,Yasuko Claremont
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000878813

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Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age by Roman Rosenbaum,Yasuko Claremont Pdf

This book explores the contemporary legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the passage of three quarters of a century, and the role of art and activism in maintaining a critical perspective on the dangers of the nuclear age. It closely interrogates the political and cultural shifts that have accompanied the transition to a nuclearised world. Beginning with the contemporary socio-political and cultural interpretations of the impact and legacy of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the chapters examine the challenges posed by committed opponents in the cultural and activist fields to the ongoing development of nuclear weapons and the expanding industrial uses of nuclear power. It explores how the aphorism that "all art is political" is borne out in the close relation between art and activism. This multi-disciplinary approach to the socio-political and cultural exploration of nuclear energy in relation to Hiroshima/Nagasaki via the arts will be of interest to students and scholars of peace and conflict studies, social political and cultural studies, fine arts, and art and aesthetic studies.

Author : Roman Rosenbaum,Yasuko Claremont
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000878820

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Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age by Roman Rosenbaum,Yasuko Claremont Pdf

This book explores the contemporary legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the passage of three quarters of a century, and the role of art and activism in maintaining a critical perspective on the dangers of the nuclear age. It closely interrogates the political and cultural shifts that have accompanied the transition to a nuclearised world. Beginning with the contemporary socio-political and cultural interpretations of the impact and legacy of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the chapters examine the challenges posed by committed opponents in the cultural and activist fields to the ongoing development of nuclear weapons and the expanding industrial uses of nuclear power. It explores how the aphorism that "all art is political" is borne out in the close relation between art and activism. This multi-disciplinary approach to the socio-political and cultural exploration of nuclear energy in relation to Hiroshima/Nagasaki via the arts will be of interest to students and scholars of peace and conflict studies, social political and cultural studies, fine arts, and art and aesthetic studies.

Author : Dr Catherine Jolivette
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472412768

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British Art in the Nuclear Age by Dr Catherine Jolivette Pdf

Rooted in the study of objects, this book addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear science and technology, atomic power, and nuclear warfare in Cold War Britain. Far from insular in its concerns, this volume draws upon cross-cultural dialogues between British and European artists and the relationship between Britain and America to engage with an interdisciplinary art history that will also prove useful to researchers in a variety of fields including European history, politics, design history, anthropology, and media.

Author : Elyssa Faison,Alison Fields,Laura Kina
Publisher : Critical Ethnic Studies and Vi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295752343

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Resisting the Nuclear by Elyssa Faison,Alison Fields,Laura Kina Pdf

From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons and waste affects many communities from Japan to Oceania to the US West. While antinuclear activism often takes political and legal forms, artistic responses to nuclear regimes also prompt social action and resistance. Resisting the Nuclear is an interdisciplinary edited collection featuring historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore the multifaceted forms of resistance to nuclear regimes. Through a combination of interviews, scholarly essays, and discussions of contemporary art, Resisting the Nuclear provides layered insights into histories of activism and the arts, underscoring different ways in which political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect changes. Contributors demonstrate how visual artists have recentered the victims of nuclear technologies, insisting that they be seen and heard. This volume offers new approaches for responding to the problems of nuclear harm that will appeal to those interested in global history, the atomic bomb, photography, art, and activism.

Author : Gabrielle Decamous
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262038546

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Invisible Colors by Gabrielle Decamous Pdf

How art makes visible what had been invisible—the effects of radiation, the lives of atomic bomb survivors, and the politics 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 Invisible Colors, Gabrielle Decamous 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. Decamous looks at the “Radium Literature” based on the work and life of Marie Curie; “A-Bomb literature” by Hibakusha (bomb survivor) artists from Nagasaki and Hiroshima; responses to the bombings by Western artists and writers; art from the irradiated landscapes of the Cold War—nuclear test sites and uranium mines, mainly in the Pacific and some African nations; and nuclear accidents in Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island. She finds that the artistic voices of the East are often drowned out by those of the West. Hibakusha art and Japanese photographs of the bombing are little known in the West and were censored; poetry from the Marshall Islands and Moruroa is also largely unknown; Western theatrical and cinematic works focus on heroic scientists, military men, and the atomic mushroom cloud rather than the aftermath of the bombings. Emphasizing art by artists who were present at these nuclear events—the “global Hibakusha”—rather than those reacting at a distance, Decamous puts Eastern and Western art in dialogue, analyzing the aesthetics and the ethics of nuclear representation.

Author : Dick van Lente
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137086181

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The Nuclear Age in Popular Media by Dick van Lente Pdf

The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges.

Author : Simon Martin,Marco Livingstone
Publisher : AVA Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2940411026

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Colin Self by Simon Martin,Marco Livingstone Pdf

This book provides a fascinating introduction to the work of the British Pop artist Colin Self, a contemporary of David Hockney and Peter Blake. It traces the development of Selfs art from the 1960s to the present day, charting his engagement with modern culture in the Cold War era. Self is a witty and original painter and draughtsman, an innovative printmaker and sculptor. The book explores Selfs artistic subjects including cartoons, cinemas, hot dogs, nuclear weapons, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vogue models, consumerism, and the landscape. Beautifully presented with full colour images it will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in modern and contemporary British art.

Author : Yasuko Claremont
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315408002

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The Asia Pacific War by Yasuko Claremont Pdf

This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (1931–1945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor drew in the U.S.-led allied forces from 1941 to 1945. Part I of the book examines three interlocking components, the origins of the war; its impact on combatants and civilians; and its short-term legacy, including the huge changes that took place in the postwar governance of Japan. Part II explores the ongoing impact and legacy of the war for those in postwar Japan, and later generations, particularly through the examination of the ambiguity of state-led reconciliation with Japan’s neighbors, the growth of dynamic civil reconciliation efforts, and the prominent role of the arts in peace movements. Through a people-centered approach it filters historical events through the lens of the war’s impact on individuals, who found themselves players within a larger frame of the social history of Japan and caught up in the international power dynamics of the nuclear age. Featuring studies of contemporary peace activism, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Modern Asian and U.S. History, as well as those interested in postwar memory and reconciliation.

Author : Toni A. Perrine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317732198

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Film and the Nuclear Age by Toni A. Perrine Pdf

Just as we generally pay scant attention to the potential dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war, until quite recently, scholars have made limited critical attempts to understand the cultural manifestations of the nuclear status quo. Films that feature nuclear issues most often simplify and trivialize the subject. They also convey a sense of the ambivalence and anxiety that pervades cultural responses to our nuclear capability. The production of popular narrative films with nuclear topics largely conforms to periods of heightened nuclear awareness or fear, such as the fear of fallout from nuclear testing manifested in the atomic creatures in science fiction movies of the late 1950s. By their very numbers, and through a set of recurring stylistic and narrative conventions, nuclear films reflect a deep-seated cultural anxiety. This study includes detailed textual analysis of films that depict nuclear issues including the development and use of the first atomic bombs, nuclear testing and the fear of fallout, nuclear power, the Cold War arms race, loose nukes, and future nuclear war and its aftermath.(Includes bibliographic references, index, filmography, choronology; Illustrated)

Author : Robert Jacobs
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739135587

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Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future by Robert Jacobs Pdf

From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response to the dilemma posed by this apocalyptic technology. Art and popular culture are uniquely suited to grapple with the implications of the bomb and the disruptions in the continuity of traditional narratives about the human future endemic to the atomic age. Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future explores the diversity of visions evoked in American and Japanese society by the mushroom cloud hanging over the future of humanity during the last half of the twentieth century. It presents historical scholarship on art and popular culture alongside the work of artists responding to the bomb, as well as artists discussing their own work. From the effect of nuclear testing on sci-fi movies during the mid-fifties in both the U.S. and Japan, to the socially engaged visual discussion about power embodied in Japanese manga, Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future takes readers into unexpected territory

Author : Ofer Feldman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819707263

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Communicating Political Humor in the Media by Ofer Feldman Pdf

Author : Kristine Stiles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226304403

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Concerning Consequences by Kristine Stiles Pdf

Kristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities. A formidable force in the art world, Stiles examines the significance of traumatic experiences both in the individual lives and works of artists and in contemporary international cultures since World War II. In Concerning Consequences, she considers some of the most notorious art of the second half of the twentieth century by artists who use their bodies to address destruction and violence. The essays in this book focus primarily on performance art and photography. From war and environmental pollution to racism and sexual assault, Stiles analyzes the consequences of trauma as seen in the works of artists like Marina Abramovic, Pope.L, and Chris Burden. Assembling rich intellectual explorations on everything from Paleolithic paintings to the Bible’s patriarchal legacies to documentary images of nuclear explosions, Concerning Consequences explores how art can provide a distinctive means of understanding trauma and promote individual and collective healing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172134612442

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Global Perspective by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Hogg,Kate Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000395167

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British Nuclear Mobilisation Since 1945 by Jonathan Hogg,Kate Brown Pdf

This book explores aspects of the social and cultural history of nuclear Britain in the Cold War era (1945–1991) and contributes to a more multivalent exploration of the consequences of nuclear choices which are too often left unacknowledged by historians of post-war Britain. In the years after 1945, the British government mobilised money, scientific knowledge, people and military–industrial capacity to create both an independent nuclear deterrent and the generation of electricity through nuclear reactors. This expensive and vast ‘technopolitical’ project, mostly top-secret and run by small sub-committees within government, was central to broader Cold War strategy and policy. Recent attempts to map the resulting social and cultural history of these military–industrial policy decisions suggest that nuclear mobilisation had far-reaching consequences for British life. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

Author : Harry Henderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9798216124054

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Nuclear Power by Harry Henderson Pdf

Provides timely and up-to-date facts, context, perspectives, and tools to make informed decisions about nuclear energy. In the 21st century, nuclear power has been identified as a viable alternative to traditional energy sources to stem global climate change, and condemned as risky to human health and environmentally irresponsible. Do the advantages of nuclear energy outweigh the risks, especially in light of the meltdown at the Fukushima plant in 2011? This guide provides both a comprehensive overview of this critical and controversial technology, presenting reference tools that include important facts and statistics, biographical profiles, a chronology, and a glossary. It covers major controversies and proposed solutions in detail and contains contributions by experts and important stakeholders that provide invaluable perspective on the topic.