Vietnamese Fine Arts - From the other side (Illustration and commentary) is a collection of 25 monographs on the history of Vietnamese art by author Tran Hau Yen The. The author used a different approach, a way of selecting research samples unlike previous researchers. The author like a child is not only engrossed in looking at the massive door, but also interested, looking at the hinge, the latch, the small details, to think about the opening and closing mechanism of that gate. To look is to observe, to examine is also to look, but to look carefully, to look suspiciously to uncover interesting problems. The book examines and illuminates the real and beautiful phenomena of Vietnamese people from prehistory to the first half of the twentieth century that history has covered with the dust of time.