Atomic sublime : the atom, the sublime, and the American Southwest

Author Lovely Umayam American
 Tammy Nguyen American

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Tammy Nguyen's hand-assembled artist's book, Atomic Sublime, brings us the surreal, purple-hued sunsets of the American Southwest. Haunting and complicating the awe-inspiring landscape, however, is its past and ongoing relationship with nuclear weapons. Essays by Lovely Umayam, writer and founder of Bombshelltoe Policy and Arts Collective, illuminate what the Grand Canyon and the Nevada Test Site witnessed during the United States' history of developing nuclear weapons.

Atomic sublime : the atom, the sublime, and the American Southwest, Lovely Umayam (American)

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Atomic sublime : the atom, the sublime, and the American Southwest, Lovely Umayam (American)
Atomic sublime : the atom, the sublime, and the American Southwest, Lovely Umayam (American)

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