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Whitworth Studies seminar: Catherine Jolivette, Art Historian: "Promoting Power: The Visual Rhetoric of Britain’s First Nuclear Power Stations"

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Dates:13 April 2015
Times:17:15 - 18:30
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Speaker:Catherine Jolivette
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In 1956, ‘Operation Switch’ opened up the world’s first atomic power station and gave birth to a new nuclear visual culture at once utopian and terrifying.

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Catherine Jolivette

  • http://art.missouristate.edu/CatherineJolivette.aspx

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