Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975

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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

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, 1812-1820 (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, 1975-2001.

"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 *