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HOMECOMING
As the Vietnam War persisted into the 1970s, more artists who had served in the conflict returned and created work informed by their wartime experiences. Like many other war veterans, they expressed both pride and pain about their service. Jesse TreviƱo, who lost an arm due to injuries sustained in combat, reinvented his painting practice as he recovered, newly asserting his perspective as a veteran and a Chicano.Performance artist Kim Jones developed the persona "Mudman," who traveled by foot through Los Angeles, wearing combat boots, his face covered by a stocking, and his body coated in mud. Bearing a spiky, wooden structure on his back, Mudman is both imposing and vulnerable, embodying the outsider status assigned to many Vietnam veterans upon their return to the civilian world |