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.

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 ...