| #2725339 in Books | Rooke Thom | 2015-09-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.03 x.47 x6.98l,.85 | File type: PDF | 176 pages | Gene Basset s Vietnam Sketchbook A Cartoonist s Wartime Perspective||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| and a wonderful one. Gene Basset is a great artist|By steve northup|This is an important book, and a wonderful one. Gene Basset is a great artist, managing to stop time and freeze the perfect expression with a single line. Dr. Rooke's use of the stages of grief is most apt, and spot on on. This is a book for those who were there, and for those who weren't and want to better un||Rooke offers us a fresh perspective on the Vietnam War through the drawings of correspondent and artist Gene Basset. We are asked to consider the war just as we consider the anticipation of death, moving through the inevitable stages of the human psychologica
In 1965, Gene Basset, a well-known political cartoonist, was sent to Vietnam by his newspaper publishing syndicate. His assignment: to sketch scenes of the increasingly controversial war in order to help the newspaper-reading public better understand the events occurring in Southeast Asia. In much the same way that M.A.S.H. gave viewers an irreverent, wry view of war and its devastating effects on citizens as well as soldiers, Basset’s sk...
You easily download any file type for your device.Gene Basset’s Vietnam Sketchbook: A Cartoonist’s Wartime Perspective | Thom Rooke. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
