Feature: “Painting radioactivity: How to represent the unrepresentable”

By Jody Patterson In the aftermath of unleashing a new arsenal of atomic weaponry on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 American artists struggled with the question of how to respond to the unprecedented atrocities of nuclear warfare. What could they say in the wake of the carnage wrought by the militarization of science for… Continue reading Feature: “Painting radioactivity: How to represent the unrepresentable”