Showcases the personalised Zippo lighters, engraved by American soldiers during the Vietnam War
Drawn from the collection of American artist Bradford Edwards and other private collections, this book showcases for the first time the personalized Zippo engravings by American soldiers made during the Vietnam War.
Showcases the personalised Zippo lighters, engraved by American soldiers during the Vietnam War
Drawn from the collection of American artist Bradford Edwards and other private collections, this book showcases for the first time the personalized Zippo engravings by American soldiers made during the Vietnam War.
Of the thousands of documents of the Vietnam War, none is so raw, so immediate and so resonant today.Soldiers engraved love, death, sex, drugs and rock'n'roll onto the canvases of their Zippo lighters, in a real-life version of the war portrayed in Francis Ford Coppola's epic film 'Apocolypse Now'.Drawn from the collection of American artist Bradford Edwards and other private collections, the chrome-plated brass bears witness to the uncensored feelings of young men at war; their testimony is both shocking and hilarious in its bitter satire.
'… shocking, satirical, hilarious and poignant in equal measure' - Wonderland
Sherry Buchanan writes extensively on Vietnamese war art and has been a guest curator of Vietnam War exhibitions at the British Museum and other international venues. Among her other books are Tran Trung Tin: Painting and Poems from Vietnam and Vietnam Behind the Lines
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