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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: For want of a nail
  name:
    name part: Franceschini, Amy
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: artist.
  name:
    name part: Swaine, Michael
    role:
      role term: artist.
  name:
    name part: Futurefarmers (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 141 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: For Want of a Nail takes as its starting point a series of curious memoranda sent from J. Robert Oppenheimer's office in October 1943 and archived in the Los Alamos Historical Museum, in which the eminent scientist repeatedly requests a nail in the wall upon which he could hang his hat. The persistence and specificity of the request for this nail inspired the international art collective Futurefarmers to create, by hand (and after more than a half-century delay), three nails for the theoretical physicist, one forged from a meteorite, one cast using 1943 steel pennies and a third made by refusing Trinitite, a material formed by residue from the Trinity nuclear bomb test. Growing out of a site-specific contribution to an exhibition in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this book engages the region's complex nuclear history as it relates to land use, resource extraction and the far-reaching decisions that were made within the Manhattan Project. Throughout this multidisciplinary project, Futurefarmers constructs a narrative that runs parallel, and in some cases counter to, the conventional accounts of the Manhattan Project and Oppenheimer, its chief architect. Through video stills, production shots, essays and interviews, presented in a book with uncut, unopened pages that the reader may cut to access more images, 'For Want of a Nail' not only opens new ways to think about the region's particular atomic history, but also prompts more general reflections on how knowledge and narrative are embedded and communicated in material objects, both ephemeral and ancient.
  note: Amy Franceschini & Michael Swaine, Futurefarmers.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Oppenheimer, J. Robert
      name part: 1904-1967
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Manhattan Project (U.S.)
  classification: N7433.4.F73 F67 2019
  classification: 700.411
  identifier: 1949484041
  identifier: 9781949484045
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 181008
    record change date: 20190718163221.0
    record identifier: in00004059760