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Resource Sector in Popular Culture Gallery: Transforming Resources CSTM Research Contract 2104-16-008 Materials, Steel & Fertilizer Researcher: Beth A. Robertson

ART AND FICTION THAT REFERENCE MATERIALS, STEEL, FERTILIZER, ELEMENTS AND THEIR PROPERTIES:

ART:

L.S. Lowry “Going to Work” (1943) Lowry Collection, Manchester UK

A famous painting by acclaimed British painter L.S. Lowry of workers heading to the Mather and Platt factory in Manchester, a one-time booming business in the processing of iron and steel goods, especially textile machinery and electrical centrifugal pumps.

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Wayne “Liwingu” McGinness’s Steel Art (2008-ongoing) http://www.aboriginalsteelart.com/artist-profile

Wayne “Liwingu” McGinness, an indigenous artist from northern Australian, combines his skills as an artist and a steel welder/ fabricator to create original sculptures and other pieces that blend traditional indigenous art with new technologies. All of his pieces use Australian 316 marine grade stainless steel.

“Jellyfish”

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Alex MacLean’s “Iron + Steel” (2014) http://www.alexmaclean.com/portfolio/iron-steel/140826-0536/

A collection of photographs taken in 2014 by famed US aerial photographer Alex MacLean capturing the iron and steel industry in Minnesota and Chicago, including the image below entitled “Steel Yard” in Chicago Illinois.

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Seung-mo Park’s Maya Series (2015) http://seungmopark.com

Seung-mo Park is a South Korean artist who primarily uses a stainless steel or aluminum wire to create complex sculptures, including landscapes, objects and the human form. His work, including the piece below, is currently on display at the POSCO Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea, as apart of its exhibit “Cheori Cheolcheol: From the Four Devas to Robot Taekwon V”.

“Yeon-gi 8460”

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Annette Barbier, Adrienne Ciskey, Christine Esposito, Eden Unluata-Foley, “Cycle P15” (2015) *** Canadian content ***

This collaborative art project undertaken by Chicago-based artists, is supported and hosted by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD). The MWRD have partnered with Vancouver company, Ostara Nutrient Recovery, to develop an innovative means of recovering phosphorous from waste water, a process that could alleviate the steady depletion of phosphorous that is vital to fertilization and food production globally. The exhibit is intended to engage and inform the public about these recent innovations.

“Superhero Microbes”

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FICTION:

John W. Campbell Jr., The Ultimate Weapon (1936) In this 1936 novel written by John W. Campbell, scientists try to harness atomic energy by creating a strange red crystalline substance from mercury in an experimental reactor. This substance becomes the key to atomic power in the story and is thought to be the only way to fend off a pending alien invasion.

Copyright: Copyright protected, all rights reserved by Ace Books, a science fiction imprint of Berkley Publishing, now owned by Penguin Random House. For inquiries about copyright permissions and licensing, please contact their permissions department via email at [email protected]

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Marcia Davenport, Valley of Decision (1942, reprinted 1979) An historical novel by US writer Marcia Davenport was a national bestseller. The story, set in Pittsburgh, chronicles the history of a wealthy family, active in the iron and steel industries, who have to navigate several crisis over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century, from the economic panic of 1873, radical labor activism and class conflict, to natural disasters, World War I and the bombing of Pearl Harbour. At the center of the novel is an Irish domestic servant who stays with the family for sixty-eight years.

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Robert Ward, Red Baker (1985) A novel by acclaimed author Robert Ward that tells the story of Red Baker, a Larnel steel worker in Baltimore, Maryland who gets laid off from his job at the local mill and turns to a wild lifestyle of alcohol and adultery.

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Reggie Nadelson, Red Mercury Blues (1998, reissued in 2005) This novel is the first of many mystery novels written by Nadelson that features the character Artie Cohen, a Russian immigrant to the US who becomes a jazz-loving police officer in New York City. After a public assassination of a former KGB general, however, Cohen is faced with his troubled past.

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Robert Wilson, Blood is Dirt (1998) A mystery novel by Robert Wilson which follows the character Bruce Melway, a fixer and debt collector in Cotonou, Benin who finds himself entangled in a world of oil, toxic waste scams and mafia. Red mercury appears in the novel as a nuclear material sought by a corrupt West-African tribal chief.

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Stephen Baxter, Manifold: Time (1999) The first novel of the Manifold Trilogy by science fiction writer Stephen Baxter. All three novels address speculative futures of the collapsing universe due to proton decay, computer intelligence, time travel, genetic engineering and the final extinction of humanity. In this first novel, a resentful worker uses red mercury "capable of releasing hundreds of times the energy contained in the same mass of TNT" to destroy the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Michael Swanwick, The Periodic Table of Science Fiction (2005) In this collection of 118 short stories by science fiction author Michael Swanwick, each story is named after an element in the periodic table, including the then-undiscovered Ununseptium.

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Stacey James and Jimmy Santiago Baca, eds., Heat: Steelworker Lives and Legends (2001) A collection of short stories written by steelworkers under the guidance of award- winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, telling stories that have emerged after a lifetime of working in US steel mills.

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Richard Matheson, Steel and Other Stories (2011) A collection of short stories by famed science fiction author, Richard Matheson, including "Steel", which was originally published in the May 1956 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It depicts a future when human boxers are replaced by robots. The story was adapted into a 1963 Twilight Zone episode, and later the film Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman.

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