[PDF] Maya Lin eBook

Author : Jeanne Walker Harvey
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250112494

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"The bold story of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial"--

Author : Maya Lin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1501146564

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Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook—a unique view into her artwork and philosophy. Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book: an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.

Author : Susan Goldman Rubin
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1452140898

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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is one of the most famous pieces of civic architecture in the world. But most people are not as familiar with the reserved college student who entered and won the design competition to build it. This accessible biography tells the story of Maya Lin, from her struggle to stick with her vision of the memorial to the wide variety of works she has created since then. The carefully researched text, paired with ample photos, crosses multiple interests—American history, civic activism, art history, and cultural diversity—and offers a timely celebration of the memorial's 35th anniversary as well as providing an important contribution to the current discussion of the role of women and minorities in society.

Author : Maya Ying Lin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300121202

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One of the most celebrated artists working in the US, Maya Lin came to prominence in 1981 with her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The book traces her continued fascination with geologic phenomena and topography, integrating natural contours and materials into evocative landscape sculptures.

Author : Tom Lashnits
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1438145012

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Profiles the architect who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Author : Tom Lashnits
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1438100361

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Maya Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in small-town America. Lin broke onto the American scene as a college senior, when she won a national competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. This is the portrait of the artist, whose use of her cultural heritage brings drama and emotional impact to her work.