Art, Censorship and Nuclear Warfare

The traumas of nuclear warfare, from 1945 until the end of the Cold War, are not merely calamities of the past. They still have contemporary consequences, contaminating the health, lives, and memories of the many atomized cultures in Japan, Oceania and in other places. I argue that looking at past and present artworks representing the nuclear age helps us to understand nuclear nations' biopower and its lasting effects.

The Bishops’ Bible Illustrations

The illustrations in the Bishops’ Bible have received more attention from art historians than from historians, though their story—which turns out to have been remarkably complicated—calls for the skills of both disciplines. The tale, which I can only outline here, throws interesting light on the state of the arts and art censorship in the early Elizabethan Church, at a time when there was much interrelationship between England and continental artists and craftsmen.