“Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head…”
and then…
and then…
and then…
Along came Skaggs with his 1968 anti-war art protest, “Vietnamese Christmas Nativity Burning.”
Hyperallergic Revisits Joey Skaggs “Vietnamese Christmas Nativity Burning” (1968)
Peace on Earth? Not everywhere. 56 years later, and there’s still no merry Christmas in war.
Emma Cieslik covers artists’ renditions of the Nativity throughout history for Hyperallergic in “Nativity Scenes Have Never Been Neutral,” including Joey Skaggs’ “Vietnamese Christmas Nativity Burning” in 1968.
