{"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\/products\/an-my-le-on-contested-terrain-by-copublished-by-aperture-and-carnegie-museum-of-art-9781597114813","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}