The Power and the Glory - Hardcover

by Laura Havlin (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

Cultivated scholar's rocks clash with atomic bomb test footage in this visual reckoning with chaos, destruction and creation in the natural and manmade world

In The Power and the Glory ancient Chinese scholars' rocks are jarringly juxtaposed with archival photographs from the atomic age, interrogating the bomb's significance not only as a subject of immense political, scientific and ethical relevance but also as a cultural object.