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Art Encounters in the Nuclear Age: Radiant Objects book cover

1st Edition

Art Encounters in the Nuclear Age Radiant Objects

Edited By Jessica Holtaway Copyright 2026
126 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

126 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Written by artists, curators, historians, and cultural workers, Art Encounters in the Nuclear Age: Radiant Objects is a collection of essays that offers an idiosyncratic cross-section of nuclear history, foregrounding stories of objects and artworks. This collection aims to expand discourse around nuclear power and bear witness to the strangeness of living in the nuclear age and to contribute... Read more

Introduction

Jessica Holtaway

1. Radiant Memory
Atsuhide Ito

2. Photography and Materiality: Accounts from the No-return Zone of Fukushima
Yoi Kawakubo

3. The Nuclear Archive
Daniel Beck

4. A Wylfa souvenir, reactivating nuclear presence
Helen Grove-White, Bridget Kennedy, Robin Tarbet

5. Christian Kuhtz’ Einfälle Statt Abfälle, Sonne-Heft 2 (Invention not Waste, Sun-booklet 2)
Marc Herbst

6. Bunk’Art: Staging the past and present of Albania’s nuclear bunkers
Dimitra Gkitsa

7. Contaminated Tartan
Michael Sanders and Jonathan Faiers


8. Remembering Plutonium
Tim Andreae


9. More-Than-Human Life and Art in Low-Level Radiation in Fukushima: Trevor Paglen Trinity Cube and Don't Follow the Wind
Jason Waite


Conclusion: The Remainderless Destruction of Immaterial Objects – Nuclear Apocalypse and the Digital Archive
Min-Kyoo Kim

Biography

Jessica Holtaway is Lecturer at Solent University, UK.

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