Forgotten Warriors: Combat Art from Vietnam

Forgotten Warriors: Combat Art from Vietnam

Editorial Reviews Review “Noble gathers watercolors, oils, acrylics, and simple sketches from a number of military archives, and offers a balanced narrative to place them in context. U.S. military artists mainly took infantrymen as their subjects, but there is also work here on life in the rear, on Vietnam and Vietnamese children, as well as portraits of the wounded and of surgeons in operating rooms. Noble quotes James Jones, who said that government art is 'by nature propaganda,' but makes a strong case that what he has collected is not. . . . Noble's efforts fill a gap, and his documentation of U.S. Coast Guard activities in Vietnam is unique.”–Booklist
“Dennis Noble is to be commended for his effort to bring the reality of the soldier's life in Vietnam to us through text and picture. For art historians and for those fascinated by the Vietnam war, this is a book worth perusing.”–University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
“His valuable new book, . . . 153 well-chosen, in-country art reproductions for that very purpose. The accompanying text helps illuminate the war from an on-the-ground perspective.”–The Veteran
“The kind of book that will endure.”–Indochina Chronology Book Description This book combines 152 works of art with oral histories and quotations from some of the better novels on the Vietnam War in order to give the general reader a better understanding of what the combat soldier endured. Perhaps this art gives the truest picture of the war in human terms. Dennis Noble has brought together a collection of U.S. military art produced by combat artists who served in Vietnam. Black and white pictures are placed alongside a discussion of war and art, the use of artists by the U.S. military, and personal views by people who served in Vietnam. Important films and literature are analyzed also by William J. Palmer to show how they have influenced our perceptions of the Vietnam War. Forgotten Warriors: Combat Art from Vietnam

Forgotten Warriors: Combat Art from Vietnam,Dennis L. Noble,Praeger Publishers,0275938689,Art,Art and the conflict,Art, American,Asia - Southeast Asia,Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions,Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General,General,History - Military / War,Military - General,Military History - Vietnam Conflict,Southeast Asia,Special Subjects In Art,Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975

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