Posts by Doug Volk

Horror. Heartbreak. Tragedy.
They’re all on stunning display—through August 18—at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, where an enormous exhibition of art created in response to the 1965-75 Vietnam War has been winning rave reviews since it opened in March.
Described by the nation’s famed art museum as “the most complete exhibition to examine the contemporary impact of the Vietnam war on American Art,” the new show includes nearly 100 works by 58 of the most accomplished artists of the turbulent Vietnam war era.
Among the deeply affecting art works on display are the “Bug-Shaped Bombers” created by acclaimed artist Nancy Spero; the controversial war-related drawings of painter Judith Bernstein, and Peter Saul’s wrenching masterpiece of 1967, “Saigon,” which shows how the war shattered human bodies and human hearts alike during that turbulent age of armed conflict. 
To learn more about this deeply disturbing and grief-provoking exhibition, just click on: 

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/vietnam 

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– Steven Steinbock, Maine Sunday Telegram

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