Toward Vietnam. Before going to Vietnam, Jones had been an art student ... shower” of “bad conscience.” All kinds of artists were trying to find forms to contain the war, to give it meaning.

Dallas, Steven Burchik and Jim Hardy have captured their war experience with photos and artwork in “Remembering Vietnam: Honoring Our Veterans through Art,” at the aRt Cottage in Concord.

Day after day, month after month, he saw the worst of a war gone bad ... South Vietnam and sold it before he left. But many of the snapshots Howard brought back proved works of art.

Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War and Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue—two new exhibits at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.—are more different ...