The Family of Man in Japan: A Photographic Exhibition for World Peace and Atomic Culture in the 1950s

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dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorTakenaka, Yumi Kim
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-24T09:00:22Z
dc.date.available2020-10-24T09:00:22Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe ambitious exhibition The Family of Man, which made the popular culture of press photography an American modern art, is well known for touring around fifty countries during the Cold War and attracting nine million people. As a path-breaking case of the globalization of art exhibitions, historical studies on its reception in each country are ongoing. This paper reconsidered the Japan tour of The Family of Man between 1956 and 1957. It is noteworthy that it attracted one million visitors in a country and that the immediate removal of some photographs of the atomic bombing on Nagasaki, which were specially added to the installation, caused controversy. This paper investigated the press and criticisms on the removal and characterized the reception of The Family of Man in Japan: it was in cultural tensions between the aspirations for nuclear energy and the fears of nuclear disaster in the 1950s.en
dc.format.extentPages 44-55
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.issn2489-6748 (electronic)
dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/47086
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-202010245972
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAalto Universityen
dc.publisherAalto-yliopistofi
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPOPULAR INQUIRY: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Cultureen
dc.relation.ispartofseries1/2020
dc.subject.keywordhistory of photographyen
dc.subject.keywordexhibition studiesen
dc.subject.keywordglobalization of arten
dc.subject.keywordcensorshipen
dc.subject.keywordatomic bombing photographsen
dc.subject.keywordatoms for Peace campaignen
dc.subject.otherPhilosophyen
dc.titleThe Family of Man in Japan: A Photographic Exhibition for World Peace and Atomic Culture in the 1950sen
dc.typeJ Muu elektroninen julkaisufi
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