Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975
WEBMar 15, 2019 · Galvanized by the moral urgency of the Vietnam War, these artists reimagined the goals and uses of art, affecting developments in multiple movements and media: painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance, installation, documentary art, …
Vietnam, Through the Eyes of Artists - The New York Times
WEBApr 4, 2019 · The war and its human toll had a profound impact on artists addressing the turbulent times. The personal and political meet in a poignant show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
How American Artists Engaged with Morality and Conflict …
WEBMar 29, 2019 · The show brings together 115 objects by 58 artists working in the decade between Lyndon Johnson’s decision to deploy U.S. ground troops to South Vietnam in 1965 and the fall of Saigon ten years...
American Art and the Vietnam War
WEBMar 14, 2019 · Galvanized by the moral urgency of the Vietnam War, these artists reimagined the goals and uses of art, affecting developments in multiple movements and media: painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance and body art, installation, documentary art, and conceptualism.
Why the Vietnam War still matters: Connecting the art of the …
WEBSep 25, 2019 · Several of the featured artists, like Jones, served in Vietnam or earlier wars. Most did not, but wrestled nonetheless with the questions raised by the war — of morality and conflict and government lies — in paintings, posters, sculpture, and the relatively new genre of performance art.
Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue - Smithsonian American Art …
WEBVietnam, Past Is Prologue, probes the legacies of the Vietnam War and its aftermath through maps, videos, and paintings that highlight the voices and stories of former Vietnamese refugees. Through this work, Chung documents accounts that have largely been left out of official histories of the period and begins to tell an alternative story of ...
Artists Respond American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975
WEBWhat makes effective protest art? Does art change in times of crisis? Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975” shows the innovative ways artists talked back, …
How the Vietnam War changed art forever - The Washington Post
WEBMar 18, 2019 · The cruel, unanswerable question of how art should respond to war is at the heart of “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975,” a must-see show at the Smithsonian...
From the ARTnews Archives: Artists and the Vietnam War
WEBMar 22, 2019 · The exhibition “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975” is now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Drawn to Battle: The Healing Impact of Vietnam War Art
WEBMar 11, 2019 · The year the United States Army began its combat arts program during the Vietnam war. The war in Vietnam was filthy, not only for the swampy terrain of the country, but for the civilian casualties. Collateral damage deaths are a grim reality of any war.