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Maya Lin
Tom Lashnits
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Description for Maya Lin
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; YQA; YQH. Category: (ES) Secondary. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 413.
Maya Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in small-town America. She didn't even begin to appreciate her Asian heritage until after she became famous and started to develop her own artistic sensibility. Lin broke onto the American scene as a college senior, when she won a national competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. She was soon caught in a cultural clash, and embroiled in controversy over a war that was fought when she was a child. But Lin stood up to the politicians in Washington and the critics who swirled around them. And when ... Read more
Maya Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in small-town America. She didn't even begin to appreciate her Asian heritage until after she became famous and started to develop her own artistic sensibility. Lin broke onto the American scene as a college senior, when she won a national competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. She was soon caught in a cultural clash, and embroiled in controversy over a war that was fought when she was a child. But Lin stood up to the politicians in Washington and the critics who swirled around them. And when ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Broomall, United States
ISBN
9780791092682
SKU
V9780791092682
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Ref
99-3
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