The battle for the monument: The Vietnam veterans memorial

American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 380-404

  McLeod, Mary ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203643686-28     Document Type: Chapter

References (38)

1. Gregor Paulsson, et al., “In Search of a New Monumentality,” symposium, Architectural Review (September 1948): 121.
2. Philip C. Johnson, “War Memorials: What Aesthetic Price Glory?" Art News 44 (September 1945): 8-10, 24-25.
3. Bernard Barber, “Place, Symbol, and Utilitarian Function in War Memorials,” Social Forces 28 (October 1949): 64-68.
4. Lincoln Rothschild, “What ‘Lives’ in a War Memorial?" Saturday Review of Literature (June 22, 1945).
5. Catherine M. Howett, “The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Public Art and Politics,” Landscape 28, no. 2 (1985): 1-9.
6. Thomas H. Creighton, The Architecture of Monuments: The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Competition (New York: Reinhold, 1962), p. 6.
7. Robert W. Doubek, “The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,” Retired Officer (November 1983): 17-24.
8. Jan C. Scruggs and Joel L. Swerdlow, To Heal a Nation: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (New York: Harper and Row, 1985).
9. Grady Clay, “The Art of Choice,” Discovery, bound in Harvard Magazine (July-August 1985): 56E-56F.
10. Maya Ying Lin, “Statement of Winning Designer.” This statement, which was released by the VVM Fund, originally appeared on Lin’s design panels.
11. Wolf Von Eckhart, “Of Heart and Mind: The Serene Grace of the Vietnam Memorial,” Washington Post (May 16, 1981).
12. Among the positive reviews in architecture magazines were “Vietnam Veterans Memorial Design Competition,” Architectural Record 169 (June 1981): 47.
13. Allen Freeman, “An Extraordinary Competition,” AIA Journal 70 (August 1981): 47-53.
14. Paul Gapp, “Proposed Memorial to Vietnam War Inane,” Chicago Tribune (June 28, 1981).
15. Nicholas J. Capasso, “Vietnam Veterans Memorial,” in Tod A. Marder, ed., The Critical Edge: Controversy in Recent American Architecture, exhibition catalogue, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985).
16. Christopher Buckley, “The Wall,” Esquire (September 1985): 61-73.
17. “Stop that Monument,” National Review (September 8, 1981): 1064.
18. Elizabeth Hess, “A Tale of Two Memorials,” Art in America (April 1983): 121.
19. Tom Wolfe, “The Battle of the Vietnam Memorial: How the Mullahs of Modernism Caused a Stir,” Washington Post (October 13, 1982).
20. Tom Carhart, “A Better Way to Honor Viet Vets,” Washington Post (November 15, 1981).
21. Phyllis Schlafly, “Viet Memorial Opens Old Wounds,” Buffalo Evening News (January 15, 1982).
22. Benjamin Forgey, “Model of Simplicity: Another Look at the Vietnam Memorial,” Washington Post (November 14, 1981).
23. Jan C. Scruggs, “In Defense of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,” Wall Street Journal (January 14, 1982).
24. Arthur Danto, “The Vietnam Veterans Memorial,” in The State of the Art (New York: Prentice Hall, 1987).
25. Larry McDonald, “That Vietnam Memorial-The Sad Facts,” Congressional Record (February 15, 1983): E-472.
26. Garry Wills, Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home (New York: Doubleday, 1987).
27. Tom Carhart, “Insulting Vietnam Vets,” New York Times (October 24, 1981).
28. James Webb, “Reassessing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,” Wall Street Journal (December 18, 1981).
29. UPI, “Veterans Fault Vietnam War Memorial Plans,” Washington Post (December 8, 1981).
30. Isabel Wilkerson, “Art War Erupts Over Vietnam Veterans Memorial,” Washington Post (July 8, 1982).
31. Rick Horowitz, “Maya Lin’s Angry Objections,” Washington Post (July 7, 1982).
32. Tom Carhart, “Veteran’s Memorial Should Not be Mournful,” letter to the editor, Washington Times (October 6, 1982).
33. Milt Copulos, “Background to Betrayal: Viet Vets Want Their Memorial Back,” Soldier of Fortune (May 1983): 18-21, 85-88.
34. William Hubbard, “A Meaning for Monuments,” Public Interest 74 (Winter 1984): 17-30.
35. Charles L. Griswold, “The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall: Philosophical Thoughts on Political Iconography,” Critical Inquiry 12, no. 4 (Summer 1986): 688-719.
36. Michael Clark, “Remembering Vietnam,” in Richard Berg and John Carlos Rowe, eds., “American Representations of Vietnam,” Cultural Critique, no. 3 (Spring 1986): 46-78.
37. Karal Ann Marling and Robert Silberman, “The Statue Near the Wall: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Art of Remembering,” Smithsonian Studies in American Art 1, no. I (Spring 1987): 5-28.
38. Alois Riegl, “The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Its Origin,” trans. Kurt W. Forster and Diane Ghirardo, Oppositions, no. 25 (Fall 1982): 20-51.