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Name: Maya Ying Lin
Birth Date: October 5, 1959
Place of Birth: Athens, Ohio, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Asian American
Gender: Female
Occupations: architect, sculptor

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Biography of Maya Ying Lin
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Maya Ying Lin (born 1959) was an American architect whose two most important works in the 1980s were the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Maya Ying Lin was born in 1959 in Athens,...
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Biography of Maya Lin
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Sculptor and architect Maya Lin is best known as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in Washington, DC. Conceived as a place for personal reflection and healing, the v-shaped incision in the landscape was harshly criticized by some who...


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Maya Ying Lin (Chinese: 林瓔; pinyin: Lín Yīng; born October 5, 1959) is an American artist who has become known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. Her best known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,...


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Art in America
Distillations of landscape: sculptures of Maya Lin.
09/01/1998: 2,136 words, approx. 7 pages
The most notable works of artist Maya Lin are the Civil Rights and Vietnam memorials which were designed as public monuments. A exhibition of Lin's sculptures detail her relationship with nature and how it inspires her work. She incorporates natural landscapes, rocks and beeswax...
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The Book Report
From Michelangelo to Maya Lin.
05/01/2002: 486 words, approx. 2 pages
Galens, Judy and Mark Swartz From Michelangelo to Maya Lin 2001. 2 vol., 261pp. $95 hc. UXL/Gale Group. 0-7876-5363-2. Grades 7-12 These two volumes contain 60 biographies of artists in fields as diverse as clothing design, film and video, furniture and graphic...
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New names added to Vietnam Memorial
5/3/2007: 513 words, approx. 2 pages
The name of Army Sgt. Richard M. Pruett is now etched into the glossy black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial _ nearly four decades after he was wounded during a combat mission in South Vietnam.His wife, Ann, wiped away tears as Pruett's name was...
 


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