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Jim Dine: Hiroshima

Jan. 21, 2018 – May 27, 2024

Jim Dine’s (b. 1935) Hiroshima series (1982-83), recently acquired by the Museum for its collection, highlights the artist’s politically charged work and his endeavors to support anti-nuclear protests. The 11 works evoke the annihilation and despair unleashed by the atomic bombs the United States dropped in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II. Dine’s art is an intensely personal exploration of autobiography, often reflected upon through reoccurring, idiosyncratic motifs such as tools, hearts, robes (often considered self-portraits), trees, and a handful of other quotidian objects. The title, Hiroshima, transforms Dine’s familiar symbols into metaphors for the tragedy of weapons of mass destruction. Jim Dine: Hiroshima is the second in a series of installations that refer to the violence of war and its inevitable toll on innocents.

Part of: Scenes from the Collection

Jim Dine: Hiroshima

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