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Introducing 'Events Ashore' by An-My Lę, a remarkable visual discourse on the American military's multifaceted role in today's world. This compelling publication, ISBN 9781597112994, features exquisite sewn binding, ensuring its durability as a cherished addition to your art collection. First released in 2015 by renowned publisher Aperture, this brand-new book invites readers to navigate through Lę's innovative use of color photography, contrasting her earlier black-and-white works in 'Small Wars.' Here, Lę masterfully captures the intricate relationship between beauty, conflict, and memory, drawing from her own experiences as a political refugee from Vietnam.
In 'Events Ashore', Lę embarks on a captivating journey to document U.S. naval ships as they prepare for deployment, alongside humanitarian missions across Africa, Asia, and frozen landscapes in the Arctic and Antarctic. With meticulous attention to detail, she presents the military's noncombat activities, providing a vital perspective on the complexities of global military presence and its intersection with environmental issues.
Whether you are an art enthusiast, a historian, or simply curious about the U.S. military's role in contemporary society, 'Events Ashore' offers a rich tapestry of visual storytelling. Immerse yourself in this groundbreaking work that challenges perceptions and invites dialogue about memory, landscape, and the human experience amidst global conflicts.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781597112994
Format: Sewn
Year: 2015
Publisher: Aperture
Description:
An-My LĂŞ's first publication, "Small Wars," brought together three bodies of black-and-white work ("Vietnam," "Small Wars" and "29 Palms"), offering a trilogy of tautly rendered examinations of landscape, war, memory and spectacle. This earlier work examined the troubling beauty that both informs and binds Hollywood evocations and photojournalistic documents of conflict to LĂŞ's childhood experiences in wartime Vietnam. "Events Ashore" continues her exploration of the American military, a pursuit both personal and civic. With this body of work, however, LĂŞ emerges as a master colorist, employing the compositional precision and subtlety of palette of the large-format color negative to render the kaleidoscopic shifts of terrain and sudden intrusions of beauty, atmosphere and psychology within her observations of the military at work."Events Ashore" began when the artist was invited to photograph US naval ships preparing for deployment to Iraq, the first in a series of visits to battleships, humanitarian missions in Africa and Asia, training exercises, and scientific missions in the Arctic and Antarctic. As LĂŞ explains, these trips allowed her to study close at hand the military's noncombat activities, becoming "a launching point for an examination of the U.S. military on the global stage across oceans and borders as a symbol of conflict, an echo of the age of exploration, and an unlikely (and unsung) force in the unfolding environmental crisis This work is as much about my perspective and personal history as a political refugee from Vietnam as it is about the vast geopolitical forces and conflicts that shape these landscapes." Wit
In 'Events Ashore', Lę embarks on a captivating journey to document U.S. naval ships as they prepare for deployment, alongside humanitarian missions across Africa, Asia, and frozen landscapes in the Arctic and Antarctic. With meticulous attention to detail, she presents the military's noncombat activities, providing a vital perspective on the complexities of global military presence and its intersection with environmental issues.
Whether you are an art enthusiast, a historian, or simply curious about the U.S. military's role in contemporary society, 'Events Ashore' offers a rich tapestry of visual storytelling. Immerse yourself in this groundbreaking work that challenges perceptions and invites dialogue about memory, landscape, and the human experience amidst global conflicts.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781597112994
Format: Sewn
Year: 2015
Publisher: Aperture
Description:
An-My LĂŞ's first publication, "Small Wars," brought together three bodies of black-and-white work ("Vietnam," "Small Wars" and "29 Palms"), offering a trilogy of tautly rendered examinations of landscape, war, memory and spectacle. This earlier work examined the troubling beauty that both informs and binds Hollywood evocations and photojournalistic documents of conflict to LĂŞ's childhood experiences in wartime Vietnam. "Events Ashore" continues her exploration of the American military, a pursuit both personal and civic. With this body of work, however, LĂŞ emerges as a master colorist, employing the compositional precision and subtlety of palette of the large-format color negative to render the kaleidoscopic shifts of terrain and sudden intrusions of beauty, atmosphere and psychology within her observations of the military at work."Events Ashore" began when the artist was invited to photograph US naval ships preparing for deployment to Iraq, the first in a series of visits to battleships, humanitarian missions in Africa and Asia, training exercises, and scientific missions in the Arctic and Antarctic. As LĂŞ explains, these trips allowed her to study close at hand the military's noncombat activities, becoming "a launching point for an examination of the U.S. military on the global stage across oceans and borders as a symbol of conflict, an echo of the age of exploration, and an unlikely (and unsung) force in the unfolding environmental crisis This work is as much about my perspective and personal history as a political refugee from Vietnam as it is about the vast geopolitical forces and conflicts that shape these landscapes." Wit