Distribution and Disruption of the Sensible: Aesthetic Questions to the Atomic Bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hsiu-Hui Kuan

《The Journal of Asian Arts & Aesthetics》 7期 (2021/10) Pp. 63-71

https://doi.org/10.6280/JAAA.202110_(7).0005

摘要

This paper is going to discuss the catastrophe images of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and will proposes that these images of the bombing or the debris are not only the compulsive representation of the event but also a reflexive aesthetic creation in postwar Japan. Regarding these images as sort of the reference of the politic position and the collective spirit in postwar Japan, the paper indicates that there is also a variation between the traditional expression and the new artistic creativity of the art. The artworks and photographs of the atomic bombing stimulated an issue about the im/ possibility of the witness as well as the artistic intervention. The images, in a way tracing the historic event, inevitably produced a distribution of the sensible due to the repetition impulsion of the horrible; however, other images, namely the artworks, might make an alternative view from the common sense of the historic event. That is, within the reconsideration of the representatives of the event and the problematics of its aesthetic production: the paradigm of the images and the mode of the way in which forming a sense distribution of the bombing, this paper will further discuss the potentiality and the politics of the artistic creation via the important artworks .

關鍵字

ground zero ； Hiroshima and Nagasaki ； distribution of the sensible ； representation of art

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