{"id":782,"date":"2006-02-13T17:03:14","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=782"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:45:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:45:41","slug":"tony-prince-the-atomic-clown-with-clock-nose-declassified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/782\/tony-prince-the-atomic-clown-with-clock-nose-declassified\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Prince, the Atomic Clown, with clock nose, declassified"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"clowntoniclockdarker\"<\/a>
\nTony Prince, the Atomic Clown, with clock nose, declassified<\/strong>
\n2006
\n21 by 16 in h
\nDigital Painting
\nBased on a photo from the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\n© copyright Jk<\/p>\n

Lightbox enlargement<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Tony Prince, the Atomic Clown, was also the subject of a previous entry<\/a>. In this digital painting, I have done Tony so his flesh appears to show through crackled paint, but Burt Pierard, who apprenticed with Tony, says that Tony was a master at the art of applying clown makeup.<\/p>\n

I’ve been interested in clowns for a while, their function in different cultures. Exactly what the process was in American culture where they became principally associated with entertainment for children, I don’t know. Because, of course, they’re not just for the entertainment of children, their intent is for society as a whole, a balancing force. <\/p>\n

An “Atomic Clown” with a clock upon his nose recalls the Doomsday Clock<\/a> which was begun in 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, its purpose being to reflect events dangerous to humankind.<\/p>\n

But Tony’s “clock”, set at about 1 or 2, would have nothing to do with the Doomsday Clock.<\/p>\n

Below are several other images of Tony at work\/play.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Tony<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0028958”
\nAccession Number N1D0028958
\nDocument Number D-286-NEG
\nAlternate Document Number D-286-NEG
\nTitle Description CLOWN WITH MONKEY
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 04-Dec-2001
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

\"Tony<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0028538”
\nAccession Number N1D0028538
\nDocument Number D-1453-NEG
\nAlternate Document Number D-1453-NEG
\nTitle Description ENTERTAINMENT AT HANFORD-CLOWN, CIRCA 1944
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 04-Dec-2001
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\"1950<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0054266”
\nAccession Number N1D0054266
\nDocument Number 1355-50-NEG-C
\nAlternate Document Number 1355-50-NEG
\nTitle Description TONY PRINCE AT WORK AND AS A CLOWN
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s) CLOWN,HANFORD SITE PERSONNEL,RECREATION,TONY PRINCE
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 26-Sep-1950
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Jun-2002
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Tony<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0004736”
\nAccession Number N1D0004736
\nDocument Number D-7255-NEG
\nAlternate Document Number D-7255-NEG
\nTitle Description CLOWN
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 04-Dec-2001
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Prince, the Atomic Clown, with clock nose, declassified 2006 21 by 16 in h Digital Painting Based on a photo from the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. © copyright Jk Lightbox enlargement Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings Tony Prince, the Atomic Clown, was also the subject of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,58],"tags":[33,431],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-paintings","category-remixing-the-hanford-declassifed-project","tag-hanford-and-richland","tag-hanford-declassified-digital-paintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}