The pre-eminent Vietnamese artist Tran Trung Tin painted in Hanoi during the American bombing of the 1960s and 1970s, thereby helping Vietnam to regain a place in the world as a culture not just a war-zone. This volume traces his life and work, including his poetry.
Tran Trung Tin painted in Hanoi during the 1960s and 70s, conveying the experience of the Vietnamese at war and the essence of human emotion in his images
When he was 12, he joined the Resistance against the French who occupied Vietnam, devoting his youth to freeing his country only to be disappointed by the repression and misery that followed. Living in Hanoi during the Vietnam War, forbidden to express himself in words, he turned to painting to communicate the contradictions of his time.
