COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0009012
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Work Title (display):
From Vietnam to Hollywood: Untitled
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
2003
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2011-11-15
Work Creator (display):
Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnamese, born 1968)
Work Creator gender:
male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Vietnamese conceptual artist. Lê was born near the Cambodian border, but fled with his family when his hometown was invaded by the Khmer Rouge in 1979. Lê moved to Los Angeles and studied photography at the University of California, Santa Barbara and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1992. In 1989, while at the University of California, Lê enrolled in a class on the Vietnam War (195575) that emphasized American hardship. This sparked Lê's earliest public art project, Accountability, a series of posters that Lê put up on his college campus (reproduced in 1992 for Creative Time, New York., Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles). These posters juxtaposed American media images of the Vietnam War with explicit pictures of Vietnamese suffering, accompanied by captions detailing the damage done to Vietnam. The desire to intervene in dominant perceptions of the Vietnam War propelled Lê for much of his artistic career. Growing up in Vietnam, Lê watched his aunt weave grass mats. As an art student in southern California, Lê used these memories of weaving as a metaphor for his hybridized identity. In 1989 Lê began his first photo-weaving series, combining large-scale images of himself with photographic reproductions of paintings from the Italian Renaissance. Cutting the photos into strips, Lê wove them together by modifying the patterns he had learned as a child. While Lê produced works in a myriad of different media, this inventive photo-weaving technique became the hallmark of his oeuvre. Lê returned to Vietnam for the first time after receiving his MFA. He travelled to Cambodia in 1994, visiting both Angkor Wat and the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, located on the site of the brutal Khmer Rouge execution centre. Shocked by the contrast between the county's beautiful temples and the horrific cruelty of Tuol Sleng, Lê began work on Cambodia: Splendor and Darkness (19949), a series of photo-weavings that blend images of the temples' elaborate carvings with the haunting photographs taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims (e.g. 2000; Louisville, KY , Speed A. Mus.). Trying to raise public awareness about the residual effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam, Lê organized Damaged Gene (1998), a temporary public art project in Ho Chi Minh City's central market. The project comprised a small shop selling evidence of atrocity, such as specially produced clothing and pacifiers for conjoined twins and T-shirts informing people about the dangers of Dioxin. Lê later returned to the photographs taken at Tuol Sleng and created The Texture of Memory (2001; Santa Monica, CA, Shoshana Wayne Gal.), a series of approximately 20 large white panels embroidered with the faces of the prisoners. Stitched in a specially treated white thread, the faces are meant to be touched by viewers, slowly darkening through this interaction (David Spalding. "Lê, Dinh Q.." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 18 Dec. 2008 .).
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 1999
Work Style Period:
21st century
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21st century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
Pop (fine arts styles)
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Pop (fine arts styles)
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Work Subject:
Hollywood
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Hollywood
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weaving
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weaving
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Work Subject:
male
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Work Subject:
capitalism
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capitalism
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Work Subject:
consumerism
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consumerism
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Work Subject:
appropriation
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appropriation
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Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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Work Subject:
popular culture
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popular culture
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false
Work Subject:
America
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America
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Work Worktype:
photographs
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photographs
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Work Worktype:
chromogenic color prints
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chromogenic color prints
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Work Category (VRC classification):
photographs
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Work Material and Technique (display):
linen tape
Work Measurements (display):
38 in (H) x 72 in (W)
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Chiu, Melissa and Benjamin Genocchio. Asian Art Now. New York: Monacelli Press, 2010. Print.
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Chiu, Melissa and Benjamin Genocchio. Asian Art Now. New York: Monacelli Press, 2010. Print.
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false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-1-58093-298-36
Image Source Reproduction page number:
157
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Din Q. Lê
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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