Because Australia had a significant Asian immigrant population at the time, Asian residents of Australia often had to endure harassment, bullying, and outright violence from Australians who resented that their friends and loved ones were being sent to fight the Vietnamese. Because Australia was an ally of the United States, it sent many tens of thousands of its own troops to fight in Vietnam, and many of them died in horrific ways. To this end, it sent tens of thousands of its own citizens to fight in South Vietnam to prevent the region from falling under the control of Communist forces-the Vietcong-who were based out of North Vietnam and led by the charismatic Ho Chi Minh. In the Cold War between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, the United States increased its military force to prevent communism from spreading to the developing countries of the world, such as Chile, Cuba, Indonesia, Iran, and Vietnam. Jasper Johns knew from a young age that he wanted to be an artist. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a time of abstract expressionism, his work filled a void in the modern art scene. Targets, American flags, numbers, and letters of the alphabet are.
At this time, the United States was involved in a lengthy, bloody conflict in Vietnam. Targets, American flags, numbers, and letters of the alphabet are typical subject matter in much of Johns work. It is the common place of the objects that make Jasper Johns paintings so intriguing.
Jasper Jones takes place in Australia in the late 1960s, shortly before the Apollo 11 moon landing (which occurred on July 20, 1969).
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