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Synopsis
As divisive as the American Civil War, the war in Vietnam continues to be debated, analyzed and portrayed in countless films, novels and other books. This work looks at the war's impact on veterans who are visual artists. Nearly 200 works in a range of media are selected from the collection of the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. Begun as a collection in 1981, the museum gathers, preserves and exhibits art in which veterans - including nurses and doctors, a former POW, people from the armed forces, and Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas - have explored and revisited their experiences. This art offers a different perspective on a momentous event in history. The works are set in context by two essays, and are accompanied by statements from the artists, as well as excerpts from diaries, letters, poems, memoirs and novels from the museum's archives.