Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. (Source: Library of Congress, American Treasures exhibit caption, ca. Maya Lin's drawing is one of 1,421 design-competition submissions documented in the Library of Congress as part of the Papers of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. The architect hoped that "these names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole." Since its unveiling in 1982, the work -popularly known as "the wall" has become a point of reference, inspiring a new generation of American memorials. Lin envisioned a black granite wall, in the shape of a V, on which the names of the American military dead and missing would be inscribed. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, originally designed as a student project by Maya Lin at Yale University's School of Architecture in 1981, has become a profound symbol that has served to unify and reconcile a nation sorely divided by a foreign entanglement. Forms part of: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Records, ca. Landscape architecture drawings-1980-1990 Subject Headings: - Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.)-1980-1990 Lin is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York City.Summary: Architectural drawing showing memorial as plan and perspective includes textual description.Ĭontributor Names: Lin, Maya Ying, architect Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth, Selections from Systematic Landscapes was shown most recently at The Pace Gallery (formerly PaceWildenstein) in September 2009. Lin's current exhibition Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes originated at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle and is the first to translate the scale and immersive capacity of her outdoor installations to the interior space of a museum. Her studio artwork has been shown in solo and group museum exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. She has made works that merge completely with the terrain, blurring the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional space and set up a systematic ordering of the land tied to history, language, and time. Lin has consistently explored how we experience the landscape. Her works address how we relate and respond to the environment, and presents new ways of looking at the world around us.įrom recent environmental works such as Storm King Wavefield, Where the Land Meets the Sea and Eleven Minute Line to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where she cut open the land and polished its edges to create a history embedded in the earth, Ms. Lin takes micro and macro views of the earth, sonar resonance scans, aerial and satellite mapping devices and translates that information into sculptures, drawings and environmental installations. Utilizing technological methods to study and visualize the natural world, Ms. She peers curiously at the landscape through a twenty-first century lens, merging rational and technological order with notions of beauty and the transcendental. Landscape is the context and the source of inspiration for Ms. Maya Lin has maintained a careful balance between art and architecture throughout her career, creating a remarkable body of work that includes large-scale site-specific installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural works and memorials. Maya Lin is currently working on what is her final memorial, What is Missing? which focuses on bringing awareness to the current crisis surrounding biodiversity and habitat loss.
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