Essays on Maya Lin

The competition by the Monument Committee that Maya Lin had won with her Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial design had consisted of 1,400 anonymous entries. After Maya Lin’s 21-year old Asian identity had been revealed, her design had received a lot of backlash and discrimination. Nevertheless, Maya...

Stephen Prothero applies a unique analytic model for text selection in his anthology The American Bible: Whose America Is This? At the center of Prothero’s model is his nuanced definition of Americanness; for him, one is not required to agree with a “set of propositions”...

Both the Arch of Titus, and Maya Lins’ Vietnam Memorial serve as a public space to their respective cultures. Their use of artistic elements such as size, shape and placement serve to identify and promote emotional realities, such as sacrifice, sombernance, and pride/accomplishment. The Vietnam...

Where does the impulse to create art come from? The impulse to create art comes from the artist imagination and life experience. The word impulse means: the influence of a particular feeling, mental state, and so on. One perfect example is Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans...