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Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
A powerful accumulation of names is inscribed on slabs of reflective stone that cuts into the earth on the Mall.
Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
This sculpture, installed on the Yale campus during Vietnam War protests, was never meant to be permanent.
Shrady and Casey, Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
Shrady’s sneaky self-portrait within this sculpture took on tragic connotations after the monument claimed his life.
François Rude, La Marseillaise
Royal ambivalence? Rude’s Arc de Triomphe sculpture had a revolutionary message, but the endorsement of the king.
