The Vietnam War (1964ndash;1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century; and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art; Minimalism; and Conceptual Art dominated the American art world; individual artists and art collectives played a significant role in antiwar protest and inspired subsequent generations of artists. This significant story of engagement; which has never been covered in a book-length survey before; is the subject of Kill for Peace.Writing for both general and academic audiences; Matthew Israel recounts the major moments in the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement and describes artistsrsquo; individual and collective responses to them. He discusses major artists such as Leon Golub; Edward Kienholz; Martha Rosler; Peter Saul; Nancy Spero; and Robert Morris; artistsrsquo; groups including the Art Workersrsquo; Coalition (AWC) and the Artists Protest Committee (APC); and iconic works of collective protest art such as AWCrsquo;s Q. And Babies? A. And Babies and APCrsquo;s The Artists Tower of Protest. Israel also formulates a typology of antiwar engagement; identifying and naming artistsrsquo; approaches to protest. These approaches range from extra-aesthetic actionsmdash;advertisements; strikes; walk-outs; and petitions without a visual aspectmdash;to advance memorials; which were war memorials purposefully created before the warrsquo;s end that criticized both the war and the form and content of traditional war memorials.
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