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The past that will not pass: Vietnamese combat art and the ghosts of memory
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The past that will not pass: Vietnamese combat art and the ghosts of memory

John Michael Swinbank
TAASA review : the journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia, Vol.34(2), pp.12-14
2025
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War shapes art and art shapes how war is remembered. In the crucible of conflict that engulfed the Indochina Peninsula from 1946 to 1975, Vietnamese combat art from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) emerged as a distinct genre — a unique synthesis of revolutionary propaganda, the raw immediacy of guerrilla warfare, and the accumulated influences of artistic traditions nurtured and passed down through a lineage of artists…

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