The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Authors

Jacob Poindexter, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

12-11-2014

Keywords

artists'books, Student Artists' Book Contest, first

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2018

Major

Experimental and Foundation Studies

Faculty / Course

Judy Maloney, Design, Fall 2014

Materials + Techniques

Museum board, davey board, paper, glue, leather thread ink transfer

Student Narrative

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki artist book commemorates the victims of the two cities at the close of WWII. As the final project for Judy Maloney's Design Class, the piece response to the prompt of representing a historical event, actin as a memorialization of the true human toll in the bombings ad the war in general. The piece also explores the United States government's initial concealment of the human causalities through poems, written by survivors, half-hidden behind the sterile descriptions of architectural damage inflected by the bombings. "to present materials of the atomic bombings of the two cities to the children and to all the world." - Arahi Tuheshi, Lord Mayor of Hiroshima.

Recommended Citation

Poindexter, Jacob; Library, Fleet; and Collections, Special, "The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (2014). 1st Student Artists' Book Contest 2015. 32.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest1st2015/32