Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 19651975
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 19651975
By (Author) Melissa Ho
By (author) Thomas Crow
By (author) Martha Rosler
By (author) Mignon Nixon
By (author) Erica Levin
By (author) Katherine Markoski
Edited by Melissa Ho
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
1st July 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Military history: post-WW2 conflicts
Specific wars and campaigns
Modern warfare
The arts: general topics
701.03
Physical Properties
Hardback
416
Width 254mm, Height 305mm
Description
How the Vietnam War changed American art By the late 1960s, the United States was in a pitched conflict in Vietnam, against a foreign enemy, and at home-between Americans for and against the war and the status quo. This powerful book showcases how American artists responded to the war, spanning the period from Lyndon B. Johnson's fateful decisio
Reviews
"Winner of a Catalogue Curatorial Award for Excellence, Association of Art Museum Curators"
"An outstanding catalog."---Sebastian Smee
"[An] exceptional, you gotta own it, exhibition catalog." * Modern Art Notes Podcast *
Author Bio
Melissa Ho is curator of twentieth-century art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her books include Shirin Neshat: Facing History. Thomas Crow is the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. His books include Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 18121820 (Princeton). Erica Levin is assistant professor in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State University. Katherine Markoski is an independent historian. Mignon Nixon is professor of modern and contemporary art at University College London and an editor at October. Martha Rosler is an American artist and the author of Culture Class and Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 19752001.
