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==Artists==
 
==Artists==
 
Documentation online:
 
Documentation online:
[http://robertsmithson.com Robert Smithson] (1938-73; also on [[Smithson|Monoskop]] and [http://www.ubu.com/film/smithson.html UbuWeb]),
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[http://doublenegative.tarasen.net/works.html Michael Heizer] (1944),
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* [http://www.aaycock.com/sculpturemenu.html Alice Aycock] (1946)
[http://christojeanneclaude.net/ Christo and Jeanne-Claude] (1935, 1935-2009),
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* [http://christojeanneclaude.net/ Christo and Jeanne-Claude] (1935, 1935-2009)
[http://www.nancyholt.com/ Nancy Holt] (1938-2014),
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* [http://chrisdrury.co.uk/category/works_outside/ Chris Drury] (1948)
[http://www.aaycock.com/sculpturemenu.html Alice Aycock] (1946),
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* [http://www.hamish-fulton.com/ Hamish Fulton] (1946)
[http://marymiss.com Mary Miss] (1944),
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* [http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/ Andy Goldsworthy] (1956)
[http://www.charles-simonds.com/index2.html Charles Simonds] (1945),
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* [http://theharrisonstudio.net Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison] (1929, 1932)
[http://www.richardlong.org/Sculptures/sculptures11.html Richard Long] (1945),
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* [http://doublenegative.tarasen.net/works.html Michael Heizer] (1944)
[http://www.hamish-fulton.com/ Hamish Fulton] (1946),
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* [http://www.nancyholt.com/ Nancy Holt] (1938-2014)
[http://www.alansonfist.com Alan Sonfist] (1946),
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* [http://www.richardlong.org/Sculptures/sculptures11.html Richard Long] (1945)
[http://theharrisonstudio.net Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison] (1929, 1932),
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* [http://marymiss.com Mary Miss] (1944)
[http://jamesturrell.com/artworks/by-type/#type-crater-space James Turrell] (1943),
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* [http://www.andrewrogers.org/land-art/ Andrew Rogers]
[http://www.andrewrogers.org/land-art/ Andrew Rogers],
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* [http://charlesrossstudio.com/ Charles Ross] (1937)
[http://charlesrossstudio.com/ Charles Ross] (1937),
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* [http://www.charles-simonds.com/index2.html Charles Simonds] (1945)
[http://chrisdrury.co.uk/category/works_outside/ Chris Drury] (1948),
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* [http://robertsmithson.com Robert Smithson] (1938-73; also on [[Smithson|Monoskop]] and [http://www.ubu.com/film/smithson.html UbuWeb])
[http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/ Andy Goldsworthy] (1956).
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* [http://www.alansonfist.com Alan Sonfist] (1946)
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* [http://jamesturrell.com/artworks/by-type/#type-crater-space James Turrell] (1943)
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[[Image:Earth_Art_1969_catalog.jpg|thumb|258px|Cover of the ''Earth Art'' (1969) catalogue, 1970.]]
 
[[Image:Earth_Art_1969_catalog.jpg|thumb|258px|Cover of the ''Earth Art'' (1969) catalogue, 1970.]]

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Also environmental art, earth art, earthworks, ecological art, eco-art.

Artists

Documentation online:

Cover of the Earth Art (1969) catalogue, 1970.

Exhibitions

  • Earth Works, curated by Virginia Dawn, Dwan Gallery, New York, Oct 1968. [1] [2]
  • Earth Art, curated by Willoughby Sharp, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University, New York, Feb 1969. Works by Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Neil Jenney, Richard Long, David Medalla, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, and Gunther Uecker.
  • Beyond Earth Art: Contemporary Artists and the Environment, curated by Andrea Inselmann, The Johnson Museum, 2014.

Literature

Artists' writings

  • Robert Smithson, "Entropy and the New Monuments", Artforum 5:10, Jun 1966, pp 26-31; repr. in The Writings of Robert Smithson, ed. Nancy Holt, New York University Press, 1979, 9-18; repr. in Smithson, The Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam, University of California Press, 1996.
  • Robert Smithson, "A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects", Artforum 7:1, Sep 1968, pp 44-50; repr. in The Writings of Robert Smithson, ed. Nancy Holt, New York University Press, 1979, pp 82-91; repr. in Smithson, The Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam, University of California Press, 1996.
  • Gyorgy Kepes (ed.), Arts of the Environment, New York: G. Braziller, 1972.
    • El arte del ambiente, trans. Nely Coarasa, Buenos Aires: Victor Leru, 1978. (Spanish)
  • The Writings of Robert Smithson, ed. Nancy Holt, New York University Press, 1979; rev. & exp. ed. as Robert Smithson, The Collected Writings, ed. & intro. Jack Flam, University of California Press, 1996, xxviii+389 pp.
  • Alan Sonfist, Nature, the End of Art: Environmental Landscapes, Florence, Italy: Gli Ori, 2004.
Anthologies
  • Alan Sonfist (ed.), Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art, New York: Dutton, 1983, 274 pp. [3]
  • Baile Oakes (ed.), Sculpting with the Environment: A Natural Dialogue, New York: Wiley, 1995, OL. Essays by 33 artists about their ecological work.
  • Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), "Documents", in Land and Environmental Art, ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 190-287, OL.

Catalogues of works

Interviews

Art history and theory

  • Rosalind Krauss, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field", October 8 (Spring 1979), pp 30-44, ARG; repr. in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, ed. Hal Foster, Seattle: Bay Press, 1983, pp 31-42, PDF; repr. in Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, MIT Press, 1985, pp 276-290, PDF.
    • "A escultura no campo ampliado", Gávea 1 (1984), pp 87-93; repr. Arte & Ensaios 15:17, Rio de Janeiro: EBA, UFRJ, 2008, pp 128-137. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • John Beardsley, Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape, New York: Abbeville Press, 1984, 144 pp; 2nd ed., 1989, 176 pp; 3rd ed., 1998, 224 pp; 4th ed., 2006, 240 pp.
  • Gilles A. Tiberghien, Land Art, Carré, 1993, 312 pp; new ed., exp., Carré, 2012. [5] (French) Review: Rinuy (1995).
  • Udo Weilacher, Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art, Birkhäuser, 1996, 247 pp.
  • Brian Wallis, "Survey", in Land and Environmental Art, ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 18-43, OL.
  • Malcolm Andrews, Landscape and Western Art, Oxford University Press, 1998, 256 pp. [6]
  • Sue Spaid, Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies, Cincinnati, OH: Contemporary Arts Center, 2002.
  • Suzaan Boettger, Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties, University of California Press, 2002, 316 pp. Covers the period 1967-74. [7] [8] Reviews: Linsley (2004), Brady (2004).
  • Ben Tufnell, Land Art, London: Tate Publishing, 2006, 144 pp. [9]
  • Max Andrews (ed.), Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook, London: Royal Society of Arts/Arts Council England, 2006. [10] Review: Dillon (2007). A compendium of essays, dialogues and commissioned pages by artists, new and reprinted texts and interviews by ecologists, cultural theorists, activists and curators.
  • Ethics, Place & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography 10(3): "Environmental and Land Art", ed. Emily Brady, 2007. [11]
  • Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), Nature, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2012. Review: Vogel (2012).