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Persistent vestiges : drawing from the American-Vietnam war

Title
Persistent vestiges : drawing from the American-Vietnam war / edited by Catherine de Zegher.
Publication
New York : Drawing Center, [2005]

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Additional Authors
  • Zegher, M. Catherine de.
  • Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.)
Description
195 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm.
Summary
Ranging from drawing, watercolor, and hand-printing in collage and photomontage, and mainly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition includes works on paper by American artists Nancy Spero and Martha Rosler, and by Vietnamese artists who fought and/or traveled with the North Vietnamese army during the war.
Series Statement
Drawing papers ; no. 57
Uniform Title
Drawing papers ; 57.
Subject
  • 1900-2099
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Art and the war > Exhibitions
  • Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Art, Vietnamese > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, Vietnamese > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Art, American
  • Art, Vietnamese
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at The Drawing Center, New York, NY, November 5, 2005-February 11, 2006.
  • "Ranging from drawing, watercolor, and hand-printing in collage and photomontage, and mainly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition includes works on paper by American artists Nancy Spero (1926- ) and Martha Rosler and by Vietnamese artists Nguyen Cong Do (1930- ), Nguyen Van Da (1928- ), Nguyen Thu (1930), Quang Tho (1929-2001), Truong Hieu (1939- ), and Vu Giang Huong (1930- ), the last six of whom fought and/or traveled with the North Vietnamese army suring the war. The exhibition also highlights the contemporary photo-based works of two American-Vietnamese artists, Dinh Q. Lê (1968- ) and Binh Danh (1977- ), and features a large new wall drawing by Nancy Spero."--P. 6.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Drawing like singing drowns out the sound of bombs / Catherine de Zegher and Katherine Karl -- Remnants & reverberations: drawings in time & space / Moira Roth -- Part 1. Of past, present and future. Part 2. View from the Horizon, March 2005. Part 3. View from California, April-June 2005. Part 4. Glimpses of art from "the other side," North Vietnam, 1990-2005. Part 5. Of Nancy Spero, New York City, 1966-2005. Part 6. Of Martha Rosler, Brooklyn, and California, 1967-2005. Part 7. Of Dinh Q. Lê, United States, Vietnam, and Cambodia, 1989-2005. Part 8. Letters from Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, August 10-16, 2005 -- The politics of drawing from photographs of the American-Vietnam war / Boreth Ly -- Chronology / Kavior Moon.
ISBN
  • 0942324234
  • 9780942324235
OCLC
  • ocm66455747
  • 66455747
  • SCSB-1392799
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library