Drawing Under Fire: War Diary of a Young Vietnamese Artist (First edition)

Pham Thanh Tam (author); Sherry Buchanan (editor); Nguyen Van Ha (translator)

ISBN 10: 0953783936 / ISBN 13: 9780953783939

Published by Asia Ink, London, 2005

About this Item

A fine copy in a near-fine jacket (rubbing to side edge of jacket and some shelf wear, as pictured) with beautiful photographs, as well as facsimiles of related artwork and Tam's diary entries/sketches. A clean, very tight, unread copy. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-471

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drawing Under Fire: War Diary of a Young Vietnamese Artist (First edition)
• Publisher: Asia Ink, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0953783936
• ISBN 13: 9780953783939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Diary of A Young Artist is a beautiful reproduction of the diary notes and sketches of Vietnamese war artist Pham Thanh Tam, created in the Vietminh trenches while on the front line of the decisive battle of Dien Bien Phu.

About the Author

Pham Thanh Tam, born in 1932, was, at 22, one of a handful of official war artists embedded with Vietminh troops, fighting against the French for Vietnamese independence. He studied at the Hanoi Institute of Fine Arts, which took over from the Ecole des Beaux Arts d'Indochine created by the French in 1925.