Rysunki Kobzdeja z Wietnamu

Abstrakt

Between 1953 and 1954, during the travel to fighting Vietnam, Aleksander Kobzdej made the cycle of the reportage drawings. He accompanied the Viet Mihn forces marching to Dien Bien Phu bastion, the fall of ended in 1954 which The First Indochina War. In this article, the author compares Kobzdej’s drawings with other reportage works in the visual arts and literature of the late 1940s and early 1950s in Poland. He tries to emphasize how the communist authority used them for its own purposes. He concludes that Kobzdej’s drawings are not only the example of social realistic art in Poland, but also the evidence of the specific kind of colonialism represented by the Eastern Bloc countries after the World War II.