The Art of War. Vietnam terminable and interminable.

An extensive review of the exhibition "War and Memory: in the
Aftermath of Vietnam" (at Washington Project for the Arts,
Washington DC, Sept. 1988) and the book edited by Reese Williams
"Unwinding the Vietnam War - From War into Peace" (Real Comet
Press). "War and Memory" makes clear that the war still goes on
at home. It is a very comprehensive project including
exhibitions of art works, artifacts, and photographs, a series
of panel discussions and readings, a concert, a theatre piece, a
film, television and video exhibition program and the
publication of an anthology containing poetry, fiction, and
nonfiction ranging from personal memoirs to political analyses:
"Unwinding the Vietnam War". The reviewer states that the
program was extremely valuable but "I am skeptical of the
therapeutic ethos governing the proceedings".


Citaten:
Williams, R.: Unwinding the Vietnam War (1988)