Index
Contents
Series Foreword vii
Preface ix
Introduction 1
I . An overview of the arts of the atomic age from Marie Curie
to Fukushima.
1. From Marie Curie to Hiroshima 9
2. From Hiroshima to Fukushima 45
II. Hiroshima and the colorless paintings
3. A-bomb literature's dark radiance and modernism 83
4. Censorship in A-bomb literature and photography -
or the story of Oiwa 113
5. The mainly dramatic art of representing the military men
and scientists 133
III. Tonight no poetry will serve : Godzilla and other cold war
monstrosities 133
6. Under the ashes of the conch shells, the Bikini and
Moruroa Atolls 159
7. Mining glories and fueling Western modernity : about the Martian colonizations 203
IV Fukushima and Other Clouds of Suspicion
8 From Power Control to Power Plant 253
9 Censorship and the Nuclear Industry's Summertime Blues 297
Toward a Conclusion: More Artistic Hotspots 335
Notes 363
Selected Bibliography 423
Index 441