Jane Irish has been drawing visual inspiration and historical research contexts from the Connelly Library’s world‐renowned rare book and manuscript collection, Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War, for the past 10 years. Maintained in the Department of Special Collections, it contains over 20,000 creative items related to the Vietnam War, including novels, short stories, poetry, music, screenplays, graphic art, films, sound recordings, posters, prints, video and board games, as well as literary and visual pornography. Irish worked closely with John Baky, Director of Libraries and Curator of Special Collections to select material from the Vietnam Collection to craft an exhibition in the Library that would juxtapose those films, books, and graphics that served as inspiration against the artwork itself.
This image gallery shows the Library Exhibition as it hung on the first floor of the Connelly Library, from January 2012 to May 2012.
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