Place | Asia: Vietnam, North Vietnam |
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Accession Number | ARTV10379 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Sheet: 71 x 48.4 cm |
Object type | Poster |
Physical description | gouache on paper |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Vietnam |
Date made | post-1970 |
Conflict |
Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright |
Cac vua hung da co cong dung nuoc bac chau ta phai cung nhau giu nuoc [There were heroes of the country uncle, we must hold the country together]
This North Vietnamese poster presents a group of Vietnamese people (both men and women) with different occupations, including a soldier and a factory worker, standing in front of a Vietnamese landscape with the Vietnamese flag and an image of Ho Chi Minh in the background. Clearly patriotic, the poster represents different areas of Vietnamese society as a unified group, and is designed to maintain loyalty to Ho Chi Minh's cause. It suggests that everyone plays an equal, and important part in the building of a nation.
This poster shows some evidence that it may have been produced after the conclusion of the Vietnam War for the tourist market. As such it represents the broader social and economic movement in contemporary Vietnam of the commodification of propaganda imagery and war 'souvenirs' for a commercial and tourist market.