Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition '50 Years of Modern Vietnamese Paintings: 1925-75', which traveled throughout Japan. Introducing fifty years of Vietnamese modern art, the exhibition features around 90 works including oil, silk, lacquer paintings, and woodblock prints. In the catalogue, these are organized chronologically into five sections – The Ecole des Beaux-Arts de L'Indochine and the Dawn of Modern Art (1925-1945), Artists During the Anti-French Resistance War (1945-1954), Fragile Peace, Division of the Nation (1954-64), In the Anti-US War (1964-1975) and Toward a New Era (After 1975). Full-colour plates, a complete list of works, descriptions and artist biographies are included.

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Fifty Years of Modern Vietnamese Paintings: 1925-75

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Onsite

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EX.JAP.FYM
Language

English, 

Japanese

Publication/Creation date

2005

No of pages

218

No of copies

1

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catalogue

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List of Works

Vietnamese Fine Arts in the 20th Century - An Overview - Department of Fine Art and Photography, the Ministry of Culture and Information, Vietnam

The 'Modern Age' of Vietnamese Fine Art - From the Perspective of Southeast Asia - Masahiro USHIROSHOJI, 後小路雅弘

Vietnamese Modern Art and Myself: Popular Appeal and Excellence of Resonance - Eikichi TOMIYAMA

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