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Return engagements : contemporary art's traumas of modernity and history in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh / Việt Lê.

Title
Return engagements : contemporary art's traumas of modernity and history in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh / Việt Lê.
Author
Lê, Việt,
Publication
  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Description
xxiv, 325 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
Summary
"This book examines modernity, popular culture and trauma in contemporary art in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Việt Nam and Cambodia-two countries linked regionally and historically in terms of United States imperialism"--
Subject
  • 1961-2099
  • Art and war
  • Art, Modern > 21st century
  • Art, Modern
  • Art, Vietnamese > 21st century
  • Art, Vietnamese
  • Arts and society > Ho Chi Minh City
  • Arts and society > Phnom Penh
  • Arts and society
  • Arts, Cambodian > 21st century
  • Arts, Cambodian
  • Cambodia > Phnom Penh
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Popular culture in art
  • Psychic trauma in art
  • Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Art and the war
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Influence
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Risky Returns -- What Remains: Silence, Confrontation, and Traumatic Memory -- The Art Part: Việt Kiè̂u Artists, Divides and Desires in Sài Gòn -- Personal and Public Archives: Fragments and (Post-)Colonial Memory -- Town and Country: Urban-Rural Developments -- Leaving and Returns.
ISBN
  • 9781478010388
  • 147801038X
  • 9781478010791
  • 1478010797
  • 9781478012931 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2020027530
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries