S E RVING TH E R E S I S TANC E : LACQU E R P AINTING IN VI E TNAM DURING TH E F IR S T INDOCHINA W AR 1 9 4 6 - 5 4 - TAASA Review March 2010

S E RVING TH E R E S I S TANC E : LACQU E R P AINTING IN VI E TNAM DURING TH E F IR S T INDOCHINA W AR 1 9 4 6 – 5 4 – TAASA Review March 2010

This article was originally found in the March 2010 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 4).

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Phoebe Scott T he First Indochina War (1946 -1954) was a complex conflict.

On one level, it was an anti-colonial and nationalist struggle.

In August of 1945, Ho Chi Minh had declared Vietnam’s independence from French control...