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This book provides an informal biography of the wunderkind who became one of America's greatest living artists and most well-known architects.
Many are familiar with the art and architectural design work of Maya Lin, but the compelling details of her personal background are less well known. This book not only focuses upon Lin's substantial achievements throughout her life, but also presents Maya Lin's "prehistory," describing family events in China that led to her parents' flight to the United States.
Author Donald Langmead guides readers through Lin's ancestry and family connections in precommunist China; her childhood and youth in Athens, Ohio; the story behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC; her career after 1982 (by decades); and emphasis on environmental conservation. Written for a young adult and general readership, Maya Lin: A Biography provides an up-to-date description of how she became one of the most famous and respected artists in America.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Timeline: Events in the Life of Maya Lin
Chapter 1 "Where Are You Really From?": Chinese Ancestry
Chapter 2 A Tradition in Architecture: Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng
Chapter 3 Escaping China: Maya Lin's Parents
Chapter 4 "People Here Are Nice": Athens, Ohio
Chapter 5 Outside, Looking In: Childhood and Youth
Chapter 6 Almost for "a Lark": An Undergraduate at Yale
Chapter 7 Design in Mashed Potato: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Competition
Chapter 8 Annus Horribilis: Building the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Chapter 9 Accretions and Aggravations: Continuing Conflicts in Washington
Chapter 10 New Haven, New York: New Beginnings
Chapter 11 Out of the Wings: The Architect as Artist
Chapter 12 A Hectic Decade: The 1990s
Chapter 13 A New Millennium
Further Reading
Index
Product details
| Published | 17 Aug 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 216 |
| ISBN | 9780313378539 |
| Imprint | Greenwood |
| Illustrations | 14 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
| Series | Greenwood Biographies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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