{"product_id":"vietnam-hardcover","title":"Vietnam - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Levinthal\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer), \u003cb\u003eLisa Hostetler\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books)), \u003cb\u003eWalter Kirn\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his latest book, David Levinthal explores the visual lexicon of the war in Vietnam through photographs that have thunderous, visceral impact. The images showcase the artist's sophisticated handling of photographic tools and techniques to dramatize figures and dioramas based on the war. His reflection on the consequential effects of the conflict on American popular culture and the artist's own memories of the era, Vietnam is haunted by the legacy of movies like \u003ci\u003ePlatoon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFull Metal Jacket\u003c\/i\u003e and recontextualizes \u003ci\u003eHitler Moves East\u003c\/i\u003e, Levinthal's breakthrough body of work made with Garry Trudeau just as America was withdrawing from Vietnam. With written contributions from French novelist Bernard-Henri Lévy; and art historian and curator Lisa Hostetler, the volume takes visual inventory of a war that shattered conventional ideas about America's geopolitical power, the national psyche, contemporary social relations, and mass media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Levinthal\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1949) lives and works in New York. Levinthal, a central figure in American postmodern photography, has staged tableaux using toys and miniature dioramas for nearly 50 years. He has produced a diverse oeuvre, utilizing primarily large-format Polaroid photography. Since the early 1970's, David Levinthal has been exploring the \u003cbr\u003erelationship between photographic imagery and the fantasies, myths, \u003cbr\u003eevents, and characters that shape contemporary American's mental \u003cbr\u003elandscape. His work has been a touchstone for conversations about \u003cbr\u003etheories of representation in photography and contemporary art as he has\u003cbr\u003e investigated the overlapping of popular imagery with personal fantasy \u003cbr\u003ethrough all of his major series including Hitler Moves East, Modern \u003cbr\u003eRomance, Wild West, Desire, Blackface, Barbie, Baseball, and History. In\u003cbr\u003e 2018, the George Eastman Museum presented David Levinthal: War, Myth, \u003cbr\u003eDesire, the largest retrospective of his work to date accompanied by the\u003cbr\u003e most comprehensive publication ever produced on his work. He has \u003cbr\u003ereceived a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim \u003cbr\u003eFellowship. His work is exhibited widely and part of the permanent \u003cbr\u003ecollections of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, \u003cbr\u003ethe Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, \u003cbr\u003eCarnegie Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Los Angeles County Museum \u003cbr\u003eof Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of \u003cbr\u003eArt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Hostetler\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, is an independent curator and art historian specializing in Photography and Contemporary Art. She was Curator-in-Charge of its Department of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY from 2013 to 2021. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 156\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 11.2 x 13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47290237550841,"sku":"9783969001455","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UCtXXfTWqw9783969001455.webp?v=1769148686","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/vietnam-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}