{"title":"Copublished by Aperture and Carnegie Museum of Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks copublished by Aperture and Carnegie Museum of Art offer compelling explorations of contemporary art, photography, and visual culture. These works invite readers to engage with innovative perspectives and critical dialogues surrounding artistic practice and cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom insightful monographs like \u003cem\u003eAn-My Lê: On Contested Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e to thoughtfully curated exhibitions, this collection reflects a commitment to illuminating the complexities of creative expression within the broader context of arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"an-my-le-on-contested-terrain-by-copublished-by-aperture-and-carnegie-museum-of-art-9781597114813","title":"An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn-My Lê: On Contested Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e is the first comprehensive survey of the Vietnamese American artist, published on the occasion of a major exhibition organised by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing, in part, from her own experiences of the Vietnam War, Lê has created a body of work committed to expanding and complicating our understanding of the activities and motivations behind conflict and war. Throughout her thirty-year career, Lê has photographed noncombatant roles of active-duty service members, often on the sites of former battlefields, including those reserved for training or the re-enactment of war, and those created as film sets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication includes selections from her well-known series \u003cem\u003eViet Nam\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e29 Palms\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEvents Ashore\u003c\/em\u003e, in addition to never-before-seen images, including recent photographs from the US-Mexico border, formative early work, and lesser-known projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEssays by the organising curator Dan Leers and curator Lisa J. Sutcliffe, as well as a dialogue between Lê and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, address the ways in which Lê's quiet, nuanced work complicates the landscapes of conflict that have long informed American identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCopublished by Aperture and Carnegie Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455519867116,"sku":"9781597114813","price":125.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/812fiklp8BL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774777671"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/copublished-by-aperture-and-carnegie-museum-of-art.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}