Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age

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Gabrielle Decamous (Associate Professor, Kyushu University) Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST)

Invisible Colors

The Arts of the Atomic Age

Gabrielle Decamous (Associate Professor, Kyushu University), Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST), Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)

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English

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
05 February 2019

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Advertising & society

Series: Leonardo Book Series

"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."

By: Gabrielle Decamous (Associate Professor Kyushu University)
Series edited by: Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor Leonardo/ISAST), Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 33mm
ISBN: 9780262038546
ISBN 10: 0262038544
Series: Leonardo Book Series
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 05 February 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gabrielle Decamous is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. She has taught at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was the recipient of a Hilla Rebay International Fellowship, working with curators at museums in New York, Bilbao, and Venice and the recipient of a KAKENHI (Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research) in Japan.

Reviews for Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age

A well-researched, scholarly contribution to the literature of the postatomic world, this book will become the go-to resource for scholars exploring political activism in the arts as they pertain to the nuclear question. -Choice As Invisible Colors brilliantly argues, art and humanities must keep the nuclear memory radioactive and alive. Because recording and remembering are also political acts. -We Make Money Not Art