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Past futures, science fiction, space travel, and postwar art of the Americas, Sarah J. Montross ; with contributions by Rodrigo Alonso, Miguel Angel Fernandez Delgado, Rory O'Dea

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Past futures, science fiction, space travel, and postwar art of the Americas, Sarah J. Montross ; with contributions by Rodrigo Alonso, Miguel Angel Fernandez Delgado, Rory O'Dea
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Past futures
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Sarah J. Montross ; with contributions by Rodrigo Alonso, Miguel Angel Fernandez Delgado, Rory O'Dea
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science fiction, space travel, and postwar art of the Americas
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From the 1940s to the 1970s, visionary artists from across the Americas reimagined themes from science fiction and space travel. They mapped extraterrestrial terrain, created dystopian scenarios amid fears of nuclear annihilation, and ingeniously deployed scientific and technological subjects and motifs. This book offers a sumptuously illustrated exploration of how artists from the United States and Latin America visualized the future. Inspired variously by the golden age of science fiction, the Cold War, the space race, and the counterculture, these artists expressed both optimism and pessimism about humanity's prospects
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Cosmic Orbits: Observing Postwar Art of the Americas from Outer Space / Sarah J. Montross -- Saudade for Space, Utopia, and the Double-edged Sword of the Machine in Latin American Art / Miguel Angel Fernandez Delgado -- Argentines on the Moon / Rodrigo Alonso -- Reflections on Science Fiction: The Other Side of Robert Smithson's Mirror-Travel / Rory O'Dea
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