Atomic Tourism and False Memories: Cai Guo-Qiang’s The Century with Mushroom Clouds

Tufnell, Ben

Atomic Tourism and False Memories: Cai Guo-Qiang’s The Century with Mushroom Clouds

Resource type

Journal article

Creator (person)

Tufnell, Ben

Date published

2012

Abstract

Examining Cai Guo-Qiang’s photographic series The Century with Mushroom Clouds, Ben Tufnell explores the work’s connections to American land art and its use of touristic tropes as strategies for evoking histories in landscapes.

Journal title

Tate Papers

Issue

17

Publisher

Tate

Place of publication

UK

ISSN

1753-9854

Official URL

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/17/atomic-tourism-and-false-memories-cai-guo-qiangs-the-century-with-mushroom-clouds

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In Copyright

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/