A photo from the Vietnam War by Robert Bracci.A comprehensive compilation of three-dimensional combat art miniatures as well as a selection of original photography from the Vietnam War by Robert D. Bracci will be on exhibit Nov. 2 to 30 in the Easton Public Library showcase.
The exhibit is titled Vietnam: Fragments and Images — The Brutal Illusion Revisited. Bracci served with the U.S. Army’s 1st Air Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970 and 1971.
An art miniature from the Vietnam War by Robert Bracci.
According to an artist’s statement, “Within these cased vignettes and dioramas, the artist portrays a diverse array of visual essays and scenarios focusing upon the American military experience in Vietnam — in some instances drawing from personal recollections of his own 13-month tour ‘in-country.’”
Bracci said the exhibit should allow people not only to better understand “the Vietnam experience,” but come face-to-face with some of the deep emotions and sensibilities that those who were there endured.
Some of the pieces in the exhibit portray routine day-to-day activity, he said, while others “project intensely profound feelings of pathos, despair and, in some instances, the horror of armed conflict — encapsulated in a moment in time.”
The exhibit is dedicated to all POWs and MIAs, as well as to the memory of those veterans of Vietnam who failed to return to “the world,” Bracci said.
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