South Vietnam - Land and People - Sketches
Liberation Publishing House
Published in 1967 - Size 18.5 x 24.5 cms (7.5 x 9.5 inches)
I have only one of each piece available.
Rare War Art - Propaganda Art, published by the Liberation Publishing House (official publisher of the 'National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam' - NLF - VC - Viet Cong). The first photographs detail the individual piece you will receive. The other photographs are for information purposes only and are used to detail the art and the publisher. I hope you enjoy viewing these special pieces.
An Assassin of Americans at Cu Chi
This striking pencil portrait, created in 1965 by artist Lê Văn Chương, is titled “Nguyễn Văn Nỉ, Dũng Sĩ Diệt Mỹ” (Nguyễn Văn Nỉ, Hero of American-Killer Operations).
It was published in Miền Nam Việt-Nam – Đất Nước, Con Người, Tập II (South Vietnam – Land and People, Volume II) by Nhà Xuất Bản Giải Phóng (Liberation Publishing House).
The artwork measures 9.5 x 7.5 inches (24 x 18 cm).
The subject, Nguyễn Văn Nỉ, came from Nhuận Đức, a village in Củ Chi District, an area renowned for its elaborate tunnel networks and relentless guerrilla operations against U.S. and South Vietnamese forces.
He is formally recognized here as a “Dũng Sĩ Diệt Mỹ”, a title bestowed upon local fighters who achieved repeated success in direct attacks on American troops.
The Russian-language caption reinforces this, describing him as “The Terror of the Yankee Executioners”, a label designed to amplify his reputation as a feared and effective operative.
Wearing a wide-brimmed hat and loose guerrilla fatigues, Nguyễn Văn Nỉ is drawn with bold, expressive lines. His gaze is steady and piercing, framed by the soft shading of his weathered face. He looks directly forward, alert, unshaken, and fully committed.
The overall composition suggests the bearing of a man who lives close to death, not only evading it but dealing it out with precision.
Nguyễn Văn Nỉ was, in essence, an assassin of Americans, a skilled guerrilla who participated in ambushes, targeted killings, and sniper attacks against U.S. patrols and convoys in the jungles and hamlets around Củ Chi.
Fighters like him were trained to strike suddenly, disappear into the terrain, and leave no trace but the damage inflicted. Whether working alone or as part of a small unit, his role was surgical and intimate: identifying targets, eliminating them swiftly, and withdrawing undetected.
This was the brutal efficiency of the war in the shadows, and Nguyễn Văn Nỉ personified its most lethal edge.
The reverence with which he is presented here, honored with both visual solemnity and propagandistic acclaim, marks him not only as a fighter, but as a mythic figure in the revolutionary pantheon.
This portrait, quiet but intense, honors a man whose contribution to the war was measured in confirmed kills, and whose reputation was built on making himself invisible until the moment of impact.
South Vietnam Pictures
Napalm, phosphorus, rockets, super-bombers, expanding bullets, toxic gases - the American command in South Vietnam recoils from none of these and any other means of extermination.
Against such unbridled barbarism, the Vietnamese people have successfully defended their freedom. Against one of the most colossal war machines ever known in history, "people's war" is being fought with valiance and creativeness, combing bamboo spears with anti-tank guns - a war in which a young mother's persuasive voice is just as a ten-year-old boy's inquiring look, also are weapons.
No less effective weapon is art with its colours and melodies. For this is life which is grappling with death, the forces of a bright future with the evil forces of a rotten past of oppression. Here heroism goes hand in hand with beauty: the fighting people demand poems and songs and drawings as urgently as rifles and bazookas.
With a few pencils and a charcoal in their knapsacks, the painters in South Vietnam set out for the front, following the combatants in their march and the popular masses in their demonstrations, crawling under showers of bombs and shells to fix in their note-books here a man's or a woman's features, there a mangled coconut palm, there again an assaulting squad.
Many artists have thus fallen, others have been captured and submitted to atrocious tortures: They paint with their own blood.
The sketches by six artists of the people:
Co Tan Long Chau, Le van Chuong, Huynh phuong Dong, Thai Ha, Le hong Hai, Nguyen Van Kinh
that you find herein will perhaps help you to form a more thorough view of embattled Vietnam.
In our country there are not only bomb explosions and the smell of napalm-charred corpses, but also - everywhere, even in blitzed villages and rice fields scorched by chemical products - children who dance, men and women who sing, cameramen and painters busy filming and drawing, all of them convinced that their enthusiastic mettle will not die down although they know they risk their lives at any moment.
LIBERATION PUBLISHING HOUSE - 1967
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