This course considers the use of art as a medium of political resistance, expression, and mobilization in Japan and elsewhere during the Cold War and beyond in response to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the escalating nuclear arms race. From a transnational perspective, we will analyze the various modes of expression and presentation adopted by activist artists, their roles in communities of resistance, their efforts to build solidarities across nations and cultures, and their belief in the power of the visual arts to envision amore just and peaceful world.