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Invisible Colors - The Arts of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
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Invisible Colors - The Arts of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
Series: Invisible Colors
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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.
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