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DescriptionMayaLinsubmission.jpg
English: Maya Lin's original competition submission for the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Architectural drawings and a one page written summary.
"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. 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 architect hoped that "these names, seemingly infinite in number, [would] 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. 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. (Source: Library of Congress, American Treasures exhibit caption, ca. 2005,
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm022.html)
Public Domain status confirmed through Library of Congress reference department: as the winning submission for a federal public arts project, US-PD applies.
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Maya Lin's original competition submission for the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Architectural drawings and a one page written summary. |Source=Library of Congr
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