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Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age

Author : Roman Rosenbaum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000878813
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age written by Roman Rosenbaum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Resisting the Nuclear

Author : Elyssa Faison
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295752351
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Resisting the Nuclear written by Elyssa Faison and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, contributors recenter the victims of nuclear technologies and demonstrate how political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change.

Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age

Author : Roman Rosenbaum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000878821
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age written by Roman Rosenbaum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

British Art in the Nuclear Age

Author : Dr Catherine Jolivette
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472412761
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book British Art in the Nuclear Age written by Dr Catherine Jolivette and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Resisting the Nuclear

Author : Elyssa Faison
Publisher : Critical Ethnic Studies and Vi
ISBN 13 : 9780295752341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Resisting the Nuclear written by Elyssa Faison and published by Critical Ethnic Studies and Vi. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Invisible Colors

Author : Gabrielle Decamous
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262038544
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Colors written by Gabrielle Decamous and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Asia Pacific War

Author : Yasuko Claremont
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315408007
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Asia Pacific War written by Yasuko Claremont and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Japanese Nuclear Imaginary

Author : Christine Erica Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781124420783
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Nuclear Imaginary written by Christine Erica Wiley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores what I call the "nuclear imaginary" of postwar Japanese aesthetic expression. Nuclear imaginary refers to how Japanese writers, directors, and artists have envisioned the nuclear age in a post-Hiroshima/post-Nagasaki world. Examining artistic works from different genres and different time periods, I show how Japanese artists have reflected on and responded to the nuclear age through cultural expression and what these representations can tell us about how they were attempting to work through nuclear issues and anxiety at various junctures in the postwar while also attempting to reconceptualize Japanese identity and the future of the nation after defeat in the Asia Pacific War. Central to many nuclear representations is the conceptual metaphor of destruction/rebirth. In each artist's conceptualization of the nuclear age, the idea of destruction/rebirth manifests as an integral component of Japan's postwar transformation. Utilizing the conceptual metaphor of destruction/rebirth, postwar artists provided cultural responses to defeat, restoration, and the anxieties of living in the nuclear age. Chapter one examines the 1954 film Gojira and how the filmmakers' intended the creature to represent not only the deleterious effects of US nuclear weapon testing in the South Pacific but also history and tradition, which must be mourned and overcome for postwar restoration to begin in earnest, a restoration that will embrace ethical uses of technology. Chapter two considers renowned director Kurosawa Akira's trio of atomic bomb films, Record of a Living Being, Dreams, and Rhapsody in August, and his belief in the inevitability of nuclear apocalypse due to human fallibility and his call for a rejection of modern technology. Chapter three examines the popular manga series Barefoot Gen by Nakazawa Keiji and addresses questions of the appropriateness of the manga form in representing traumatic and significant historical events, especially as the topic of a children's manga. Chapter four discusses the neglect of the novel Urashimaso by Oba Minako as representative of atomic bomb literature and argues for its inclusion in the genre because of the novel's emphasis on hibakusha testimony and memories.

Colin Self

Author : Simon Martin
Publisher : AVA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9782940411023
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Colin Self written by Simon Martin and published by AVA Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future

Author : Robert A. Jacobs
Publisher : AsiaWorld
ISBN 13 : 9780739135570
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future written by Robert A. Jacobs and published by AsiaWorld. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ---Richard Minear, University of Massachusetts Amherst --

Concerning Consequences

Author : Kristine Stiles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630440X
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Concerning Consequences written by Kristine Stiles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

British Nuclear Mobilisation Since 1945

Author : Jonathan Hogg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000395162
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book British Nuclear Mobilisation Since 1945 written by Jonathan Hogg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Nuclear Power

Author : Harry Henderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Power written by Harry Henderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Global Perspective

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Perspective written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spiritualizing the City

Author : Victoria Hegner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317396693
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Spiritualizing the City written by Victoria Hegner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban spaces have always functioned as cradles and laboratories for religious movements and spiritualities. The urban forms a central and nourishing agent for the creation of new religious expressions, and continually negotiates new ways of being spiritual and establishing spiritual ideas and practices. This book explores the intense and complex interplay between the (post) modern city and new religious and spiritual movement, bringing the city and its annexes into the foreground of current research into religion. It develops a new, ethnography-based analysis of the ways in which the pluralist experience of the "urban" inscribes itself into various religious practices and vice versa: how do religiosity and spirituality appropriate and transform meanings of the urban? It focuses on new religious expressions, cosmologies and ways of life that go beyond established belief systems and religious understandings, and explores new conceptions of the word "urban" in a world of increasingly extended urban environments. The book examines how cities are both considered as sites and sources of spirituality, where the globalization of religions takes place as well as the fact that globalization is linked closely to the process of localization. The socio-cultural and political uniqueness of the specific urban context are analyzed to present an innovative perspective on how the interplay between the urban, spiritual and religious should be understood. This book brings a timely new perspective and will be of interest to academics and students in geography, sociology, urban studies, cultural studies and anthropology, as well as for urban planners and policy makers.

The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History

Author : Tatiana Flores
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000969991
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History written by Tatiana Flores and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion is the first global, comprehensive text to explicate, theorize, and propose decolonial methodologies for art historians, museum professionals, artists, and other visual culture scholars, teachers, and practitioners. Art history as a discipline and its corollary institutions - the museum, the art market - are not only products of colonial legacies but active agents in the consolidation of empire and the construction of the West. The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History joins the growing critical discourse around the decolonial through an assessment of how art history may be rethought and mobilized in the service of justice - racial, gender, social, environmental, restorative, and more. This book draws attention to the work of artists, art historians, and scholars in related fields who have been engaging with disrupting master narratives and forging new directions, often within a hostile academy or an indifferent art world. The volume unpacks the assumptions projected onto objects of art and visual culture and the discourse that contains them. It equally addresses the manifold complexities around representation as visual and discursive praxis through a range of epistemologies and metaphors originated outside or against the logic of modernity. This companion is organized into four thematic sections: Being and Doing, Learning and Listening, Sensing and Seeing, and Living and Loving. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, museum studies, race and ethnic studies, cultural studies, disability studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.

Photography and Its Publics

Author : Melissa Miles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000211673
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Photography and Its Publics written by Melissa Miles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography is a ubiquitous part of the public sphere. Yet we rarely stop to think about the important role that photography plays in helping to define what and who constitute the public. Photography and Its Publics brings together leading experts and emerging thinkers to consider the special role of photography in shaping how the public is addressed, seen and represented.This book responds to a growing body of recent scholarship and flourishing interest in photography's connections to the law, society, culture, politics, social change, the media and visual ethics.Photography and Its Publics presents the public sphere as a vibrant setting where these realms are produced, contested and entwined. Public spheres involve yet exceed the limits of families, interest groups, identities and communities. They are dynamic realms of visibility, discussion, reflection and possible conflict among strangers of different race, age, gender, social and economic status. Through studies of photography in South America, North America, Europe and Australasia, the contributors consider how photography has changed the way we understand and locate the public sphere. As they address key themes including the referential and imaginative qualities of photography, the transnational circulation of photographs, online publics, social change, violence, conflict and the ethics of spectatorship, the authors provide new insight into photography's vital role in defining public life.