Paperback, full colour illustrations, 96 Pages, W185 x H230mm
In the mid-60s, artists in the USA and Europe began planning works for
sites outside the narrow boundaries of galleries and museums. It began
with ephemeral enhancements or traces left in deserted landscapes, in
the deserts of America, or in the moors of Scotland. Following this
were spectacular earthen sculptures of gigantic proportions, some of
which are still in the process of completion today. One distinguishing
feature of Land Art is its critical preoccupation with the tradition of
sculpture. Sculpture can now be an earthwork excavation, a field of
metal poles, a buried hut, a trace in the grass, or even a book.
Another of the movement's special characteristics is its emphasis on
site-specific, outdoor works intended to lastingly alter our perception
of places, and to set new parameters in art production and reception.
Artists included: Carl Andre, Alice Aycock, Herbert Bayer, Christo & Jeanne Claude, Walter De Maria, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Hamish Fulton, Andy Goldsworthy, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Peter Hutchinson, Patricia Johanson, Dani Karavan, Richard Long, Mary Miss, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles Ross, Robert Smithson, Alan Sonfist, James Turrell