Book
$95.00
The fine art created by the artists from the Indochina College of Fine Arts is garnering increased respect and generating great excitement with collectors around the world, as reflected in recent auction results from the world's leading auction houses. These paintings on canvas, silk, scrap and lacquer demonstrate the cultural impacts between the French and Vietnamese on imagery, style and media.
Author Nguyễn Hải Yến chronicles the growth of these artists from young prodigies to stars of major exhibits. The fact that she knew many of the artists personally takes this work beyond the artists' biographies and historical facts. The reader immediately feels a more personal connection to the art and the artists as we get to know them as she knew them — friends, colleagues and neighbours.
The book hopes to accomplish three things: share the great art tradition of the Hanoi Fine Art Movement, preserve the culture and traditions of that era, and tell the artists' stories.
This is the English edition, published 2011. The same book is also available in Vietnamese as Hội họa Hà Nội — Những kí ức còn lại.
Author: Nguyễn Hải Yến
Publisher: PICTURE Art Foundation, 2011
