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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
Hardcover:
9780739135563 | Lexington Books, April 30, 2010, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: 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.
Paperback:
9780739135570 | Lexington Books, April 30, 2010, cover price $37.99
Miscellaneous:
9780739135587 | Lexington Books, March 16, 2010, cover price $80.00
Product Description: When President Harry Truman introduced the atomic bomb to the world in 1945, he described it as a God-given harnessing of the basic power of the universe. Six days later a New York Times editorial framed the dilemma of the new Atomic Age for its readers: Here the long pilgrimage of man on Earth turns towards darkness or towards light...read more
Hardcover:
9781558497269, titled "The Dragon's Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age" | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, December 31, 2009, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: When President Harry Truman introduced the atomic bomb to the world in 1945, he described it as a God-given harnessing of the basic power of the universe.
Paperback:
9781558497276 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, December 31, 2009, cover price $24.95
Product Description: Apollo is a photographic commemoration of the Apollo lunar missions as seen through the eyes of the astronauts. Each of the surviving 21 astronauts from the Apollo missions has chosen a favorite photograph from his space flight especially for this book...read more
Hardcover:
9780810921467 | Harry N Abrams Inc, June 1, 2009, cover price $27.50 | also contains Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts | About this edition: Apollo is a photographic commemoration of the Apollo lunar missions as seen through the eyes of the astronauts.
Hardcover:
9780810993730 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2007, cover price $55.00
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