Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas Under Armour and the hand

and the hand

Susan Tallman

statistics and general science

Bernard Langlais

Through its focus on ritual and material practices

Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas Under Armour and the handEdited by Sarah J. Montross Overview 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