Art and Nuclear Power

The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate

Anna Volkmar

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
07 February 2022

The Arts: General & Reference; Social & cultural anthropology; Nuclear power & engineering

Series: Environment and Society

Humanity is struggling with the environmental destruction and social change caused by modern technologies like nuclear reactors. Politicians, scientists, and business leaders all too often revert to a tried and tested set of solutions that fails to grasp the wicked nature of the problem. Eschewing the problem-solving approach that dominates the nuclear energy debate, Anna Volkmar suggests that the only intelligent way to account for the inherent complexity of nuclear technology is not by trying to resolve it but to muddle through it. Through in-depth analyses of contemporary visual art, Volkmar demonstrates how art can suggest ways to muddle through these issues intelligently and ethically. This book is recommended for students and scholars of art history, anthropology, social science, ecocriticism, and philosophy.

By: Anna Volkmar
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9781666900224
ISBN 10: 1666900222
Series: Environment and Society
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 07 February 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1: Ironic Encounters In Nuclear Landscape Photography Chapter 2: Snapshots from the Zone Chapter 3: The Art to Remain Exposed Chapter 4: How to Care for Nuclear Waste? Conclusion

Anna Volkmar is professor of art and technology at Leiden University.

Reviews for Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate

Volkmar's close reading of artistic responses to nuclear power convincingly uncovers art's transformative potential, that is, to force the viewer to see and think differently and thereby create conditions for societal change. In Art and Nuclear Power, Volkmar takes the reader on an essentially hopeful journey where she identifies and articulates the selected artworks' ethical request to the viewer, to engage and care, not only for past damages or future uncertainties, but - most fundamentally - for the vulnerabilities of the present. -- Anna Storm, Linkoeping University, Sweden Anna Volkmar's exceptional close reading of nuclear artworks makes a vital contribution to understanding how contemporary visual art can help to rethink nuclear technical infrastructures in the twenty-first century. Volkmar deals with the ethical complexity of making art within nuclear landscapes and catastrophes at a time when the industry is focused on the role of art for marking geological waste storage. Without being distracted by the romanticism of deep time, Volkmar keeps focused on the matter in hand: muddling through wicked complexity dealing with ironic encounters, care and experimentation and the redistribution of power relations. -- Ele Carpenter, Umea University