Dalí's "The Three Sphinxes of Bikini" and Soka Gakkai's Anti-Nuclear-Weapons Campaigns
American nuclear weapons tests in the Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands started in 1946 and continued until 1958. They had a powerful echo in popular culture, from comics to drinks, and French fashion designer Louis Réard in 1946 gave the name "bikini" to a new "explosive" two...
| Published in: | The journal of CESNUR |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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The journal of CESNUR
Year: 2023, Volume: 7, Issue: 5, Pages: 20-33 |
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Chen Zhen
B Soka Gakkai B Kaki Tree Project B "The Three Sphinxes of Bikini" B Nuclear Tests at Bikini Atoll B Tatsuo Miyajima B Daisaku Ikeda B Bikini Atoll |
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| Summary: | American nuclear weapons tests in the Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands started in 1946 and continued until 1958. They had a powerful echo in popular culture, from comics to drinks, and French fashion designer Louis Réard in 1946 gave the name "bikini" to a new "explosive" two-piece female swimsuit. They also had echoes among leading artists, and in 1946 Salvador Dalí painted The Three Sphinxes of Bikini, a sober meditation on the possibility of a nuclear apocalypse and of a destruction of the environment by irresponsible humans. The paper compares the message of The Three Sphinxes of Bikini with the ecological and anti-nuclear-weapons teachings of Soka Gakkai and its third President Daisaku Ikeda. It also compares Dalí's painting to works of contemporary artists from East Asia who offer similar meditations, such as the installation Fu Dao of the late French-Chinese artist Chen Zhen, and the Kaki Tree Project and the installation Mega Death by Japanese artist and Soka Gakkai member Tatsuo Miyajima. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-2990 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of CESNUR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26338/tjoc.2023.7.5.2 |