Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-259) and index.
Contents:
'A kind of cold war feeling' 1945-1952 / Carol Jacobi -- Geometries of Hope and Fear: the iconography of atomic science and nuclear anxiety in the modern sculpture of World-War and Cold-War Britain / Robert Burstow -- 'An Imagined Cataclysm Becomes Fact': British Photojournalism and Real and Imagined Nuclear War in Picture Post / Christoph Laucht -- Representations of Atomic Power at the Festival of Britain / Catherine Jolivette -- The Genius Loci of Cold War Britain: the Metamorphic Landscapes of Graham Sutherland, Peter Lanyon and Alan Reynolds / Fiona Gaskin -- Cold War At Home: John Bratby, The Self and The Nuclear Threat / Gregory Salter -- Covert Resistance: Prunella Clough's Cold War 'Urbscapes' / Catherine Spencer -- The Aesthetics of Scientific Authority in a Nuclear Age: Jacob Bronowski and Feliks Topolski / Katherine Aspinall.
Series:
British art. Histories and interpretations since 1700
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