Those That Have Their Finger on the Button
Item
Title
Those That Have Their Finger on the Button
Description
Group of assemblage sculptures. Plastic tubing, painted traffic cones, and aluminum crutches form a group of missiles pointed skyward. On the tubes of the missiles are written the names of countries with nuclear weapons or aspirations to acquire nuclear weapons, including China, USA, North Korea (abbreviated NK), and Russia, along with the word "END" in red and black paint. On a horizontal black wooden board is painted in large yellow letters "GENESIS 15:13-14 / DANIEL / REVELATION."
In his conversations on the piece, Minter speaks of nuclear warfare as "the beginning of the birth of what you would call the death of everything on earth, because one push of one button with all these powers can take us out."
In his conversations on the piece, Minter speaks of nuclear warfare as "the beginning of the birth of what you would call the death of everything on earth, because one push of one button with all these powers can take us out."
Subject
Assemblages (sculpture) See all items with this value
Nuclear warfare See all items with this value
Nuclear weapons See all items with this value
Creator
Minter, Joe
Language
English
Type
Assemblages See all items with this value
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Format
found objects
traffic cones
plastic piping