Robert Arneson
(Benicia, California, 1930 - 1992, Benicia, California)
Nuke News
1983
Bronze
19 x 22 x 28 1/8 in. (48.3 x 55.9 x 71.4 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Purchased with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Plan Program and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
1990.11
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Robert Arneson is perhaps best known for his work in ceramic, but in the 1980s he produced some of his most powerful work in bronze. 'Nuke News', a witty if gruesome commentary on nuclear war, is inscribed with the names of the physicists responsible for creating the atom bomb as well as epithets, colloquial phrases and the nicknames of the bombs deployed over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Keywords
DeathSkull
American
Sculpture
Violence
Text in art
Bronze
Face