Full Description
The Vietnam idea examines how Vietnam became a potent symbol for global movements fighting colonialism, racism, and imperialism during the American War and its aftermath. Rather than focusing on Vietnam as a place, Brynn Hatton explores how artists and activists around the world used the idea of 'Vietnam' to express political identification and solidarity through posters, films, protest actions, exhibitions, and conceptual art. Drawing on international archives, the book reveals how diverse visual works helped shape the political imagination of the global left, and continue to influence how we see identity, conflict, and solidarity today.
Contents
Note on language and diacritics
Introduction: Many Vietnams
1 Global protest art: Proximity and difference in the construction of radical solidarity
2 Missing subjects: Finding Vietnam in a Jordanian-Soviet film archive
3 Recognition: The colonial architecture of made and unmade connections
4 Differences make a difference: The difficulties of institutionalising decolonisation
5 Proposition: Conceptual art, protest art, and the idea art canon
Selected bibliography
Index
