Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Ho, Melissa
2. Ho, Melissa
3. Crow, Thomas E., 1948-
4. Levin, Erica
5. Nixon, Mignon
6. Rosler, Martha
7. Smithsonian American Art Museum, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution
8. Princeton University Press, publisher
9. Minneapolis Institute of Art, host institution

Description

1. xvi, 396 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs, portraits; 31 cm

Summary

1. "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 decision to deploy US Marines to South Vietnam in 1965 to the fall of Saigon ten years later. Artists Respond brings together works by many of the most visionary and provocative artists of the period, including Asco, Chris Burden, Judy Chicago, Corita Kent, Leon Golub, David Hammons, Yoko Ono, and Nancy Spero. It explores how the moral urgency of the Vietnam War galvanized American artists in unprecedented ways, challenging them to reimagine the purpose and uses of art and compelling them to become politically engaged on other fronts, such as feminism and civil rights. The book presents an era in which artists struggled to synthesize the turbulent times and participated in a process of free and open questioning inherent to American civic life. Illustrated in color throughout, Artists Respond features a broad range of art, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance and body art, installation, documentary cinema and photography, and conceptualism"

Uniform title

1. Artists respond (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Subject

1. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Art and the war -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]
2. Art -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]
3. Political art -- United States -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]
4. Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]
5. Art, American -- Political aspects -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]
6. Art and war -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]
7. War in art -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]
8. Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. - [Browse in index]

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. Essays.
3. Illustrated works.
4. History.

Contents

1. One thing: Viet-Nam: American art and the Vietnam war / Melissa Ho -- Chronology and plates / Melissa Ho and Katherine Markoski, with contributions by Robert Cozzolino, Joe Madura, Sarah Newman, and E. Carmen Ramos -- Bearing witness in American art of the Vietnam era / Thomas Crow -- To change the form of film: experiments in cinema against the television war / Erica Levin -- What's love got to do, got to do, with it? : feminist politics and America's war in Vietnam / Mignon Nixon -- Vietnam story / Martha Rosler.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Language

1. English

Note

1. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, March 15, 2019 to August 18, 2019. The exhibition will tour to the Minneapolis Institute of Art from September 28, 2019 to January 5, 2020"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-382) and index.

Event (note)

1. "Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietname War, 1965-1975"

Language (note)

1. Text in English.