| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Washington, District of Columbia, United States | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1981-1983 (creation); 1984 (alteration); 1993 (alteration) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Lin, Maya Ying | en_US |
| dc.creator | Cooper-Lecky Partnership | en_US |
| dc.creator | Hart, Frederick | en_US |
| dc.date | 1981-1983 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-17T14:18:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-17T14:18:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1981-1983 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 218950 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 427 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/126611 | |
| dc.description | View where the north and east walls meet; Lin was still a student when her design was chosen from a competition of 142 entries for a memorial to commemorate those who fought and died in the War and to ease tensions the War had provoked among the American public, government leaders, and war veterans. The memorial consists of a large, reflective granite wall, lowered into the earth to symbolize a scar, and inscribed with the names of the dead. [The figurative sculpture 'Three Servicemen' by Frederick Hart was selected in 1982 and cast in 1984. It is located 150 feet away from the wall. The Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated in 1993. The sculpture, designed by Texas native Glenna Goodacre, depicts three uniformed women with a wounded soldier.] Source: Union List of Artist Names [online notes]; http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan (accessed 2/8/2008) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | granite; bronze | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | abstraction or non-objective | en_US |
| dc.subject | contemporary (1960 to present) | en_US |
| dc.subject | death or burial | en_US |
| dc.subject | military | en_US |
| dc.subject | war | en_US |
| dc.subject | Modernist | en_US |
| dc.title | Vietnam Veterans' Memorial | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | The Wall | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A2-US-DC-VM-B4 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | carving (processes) construction (assembling) casting (process) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | monument | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Cooper-Lecky Partnership (American architectural firm, founded ca. 1970); Frederick Hart (American sculptor, 1943-1999); Maya Ying Lin (American sculptor, born 1959) | en_US |
