Land and Environmental Art

Name: Land and Environmental Art
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ISBN: 9780714856438

ISBN-10: 0714856436

ISBN-13: 9780714856438

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jeffrey Kastner, Brian Wallis

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The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by vast, uncultivated spaces of desert and mountain as well as by post-industrial wastelands, artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson moved earth to create colossal primal symbols. Others punctuated the horizon with man-made signposts, such as Christo's Running Fence and Walter de Maria's The Lightning Field. For Richard Long, journeys became works of art while Dennis Oppenheim immersed his entire body in the contours of the land. Survey Brian Wallis discusses the key artists, works and…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 9.84" wide x 11.42" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Jeffrey Kastner is a New York--based writer and critic and senior editor of Cabinet. A regular contributor to Artforum and the New York Times, he has written extensively on contemporary art in numerous catalogues and journals. His books include Land and Environmental Art.