Kim Williams

Paper Summary:

In her essay, "Why Have There Not Been Any Great Vietnam Artists?" Nora Taylor, a Vietnam art historian, questions how it could be possible that Vietnamese artists have never received their due for their outstanding works. Thanks to globalization, this unfortunate trend is at an end as other artists, collectors and art lovers recognize and enjoy the creative and historic value of this Asian artwork. This paper comments on an exhibit which showed the art work of Vietnamese-American Kim Williams. The paper notes that it was an enriching global blend of the best of both Eastern and Western traditions.

From the Paper:

"Such warm renditions, however, are juxtaposed against the harsher reds, blacks, and whites of the war pictures of the fires, bodies, injured, destroyed villages and lands. The American and Vietnamese soldiers and the Vietcong, the shells, Agent Orange and gunfire, the same mothers, grandmothers and children dying or dead. It is hard to believe that the same artist who painted the mother and daughter playing a game could have this inside her as well."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Taylor, Nora. "Why Have There Been No Great Vietnamese Artists?" Michigan Quarterly Review (2005) 44.1: 148-65.
• Vietnamese Artists. 16 March, 2006. http://www.asia-art.net/vietnamese_artists.html
• Vietnam War. The United States in Vietnam 1999."The History Place." 16 March, 2006 http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/

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• Analytical Essay # 131802 : "Bernard Williams and External Reasons"

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