Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes.

LIN, Maya. Essays by Richard Andrews and John Beardsley. Foreword by Lawrence Weschler. Signed by Maya Lin, Richard Andrews and Lawrence Weschler.

ISBN 10: 0300121202 / ISBN 13: 9780300121209

Published by Henry Art Gallery / Yale, Seattle / New Haven, 2006

About this Item

First edition / First printing. Signed on the title page by Maya Lin, and dated 2006. Also signed by Henry Art Gallery Director and essayist Richard Andrews, and Lawrence Weschler, who contributed the Foreword. Weschler's signature has spattered a bit. Off White cloth. 112 pages. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The catalogue of Maya Lin's 2006 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. An attractive production. The cover is embossed with the artist's "Waterline.".

Seller Inventory # 14642

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes.
• Publisher: Henry Art Gallery / Yale, Seattle / New Haven
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300121202
• ISBN 13: 9780300121209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Maya Lin
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Weight: 5 pounds
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Architecture
  • Signed Books

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Synopsis

“Utilizing the way in which scientists and computers see our world, drawing on images based on sonar views of the ocean floor, to aerial and satellite views of the land, I have started to create artworks that translate that technological view into sculptural forms.” (Maya Lin)
One of the most celebrated artists working in the United States, Maya Lin (b. 1959) came to prominence in 1981 with her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Generously illustrated and beautifully designed, Systematic Landscapes traces her continued fascination with geologic phenomena and topography, integrating natural contours and materials into evocative landscape sculptures such as Character of a Hill Under Glass (2002) and 11 Minute Line (2004).
As the book reveals, Lin’s earthworks and public sculptures have always developed alongside small-scale, exploratory sculptures and monumental temporary installations, such as Avalanche (1998), through which Lin evokes the physical processes that shape the earth. This important volume also introduces three major new installation works created for the "Systematic Landscapes" exhibition, along with a series of related drawings and reliefs demonstrating the expanding scope of Lin’s creative process. The largest of these installations, 2 x 4 Landscape, is composed from more than 45,000 sections of lumber placed on end that from a distance take on a pixel-like image of a hill, and close up create a form that evokes both mound and wave, earth and water.
Systematic Landscapes is of interest to newcomers to Maya Lin's work as well as to longtime enthusiasts of her unique artistic creations and stunning design work.

About the Author

Richard Andrews is Director of the Henry Art Gallery. John Beardsley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Lawrence Weschler is Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.