Maya Lin, Public Art, and the Confluence Project (Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies)

"The first scholarly monograph devoted exclusively to this vital work of contemporary public art, this book examines Maya Lins Confluence Project through the lens of environmental humanities and indigenous studies. Matthew Reynolds provides a detailed analysis of each earthwork, along with a discussion of the proposed final project at Celilo Falls near The Dalles, Oregon. The book assesses the artists longtime engagement with the region of the Pacific Northwest and explores the Confluence Project within Lins larger oeuvre. Several consistent themes and experiences are common amongst all the sites. These include an emphasis on individual, multi-sensory encounters with the earthworks and their surrounding contexts; sound as an experiential dimension of landscape; indexical accounts of the multicultural, multi-species histories of each place; and an evocation of loss. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, environmental studies, environmental humanities, and Native American studies"--