And babies
And babies (26 Desember 1969[2]) adalah sebuah poster anti-Perang Vietnam.[1] Ini adalah contoh terkenal dari "seni propaganda"[3] dari konflik Vietnam yang memakai foto berwarna dari Pembantaian My Lai yang diambil oleh fotografer AS Ronald L. Haeberle pada 16 Maret 1968. Foto tersebut menampilkan puluhan wanita dan bayi Vietnam Selatan nyaris telanjang dan tewas dalam posisi terbaring di jalanan kotor akibat dibunuh oleh pasukan AS.
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- ^ a b M. Paul Holsinger (1999). "And Babies". War and American Popular Culture. Greenwood Press. hlm. 363.
- ^ Francis Frascina (1999). Art, politics, and dissent: aspects of the art left in sixties America. hlm. 175–186+. ISBN 978-0719044694. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2018-05-29. discuss the creation of the poster.
- ^ Daniel Cooper (2003). "Art". Dalam Nicholas John Cull. Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present. ABC-CLIO. hlm. 23.
Propaganda art found more fertile ground in criticizing the U.S. government during the Vietnam conflict through works such as the famous Art Workers Coalition piece Q. And Babies? A. And Babies (1970) which commented on the horrors of the My Lai incident.
The poster is also discussed in Propaganda Prints: A History of Art in the Service of Social and Political Change (2011), p. 181, and Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq (2009), p. 221
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- Matthew Israel (2013). "Chapter 6: 1969. AWC, Dead Babies, Dead American Soldiers". Kill for Peace. hlm. 119–127.
- Lucy Lippard (1990). A Different War: Vietnam in Art. Seattle. hlm. 27–28.