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[[Image:Earth_Art_1969_catalog.jpg|thumb|258px|Cover of ''Earth Art'' (1969) catalogue, 1970.]]
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[[Image:Earth_Works_announcement_1968.jpg|thumb|258px|''Earth Works'' exhibition announcement, 1968. A sheet of heavy-stock cardboard flocked with sand.]]
 
==Exhibitions==
 
==Exhibitions==
* ''Earth Works'', curated by Virginia Dawn, Dwan Gallery, New York, Oct 1968. [http://www.leftmatrix.com/earthworks.html] [http://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=3668&inventory_id=3666]
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* ''Earth Works'', curated by Virginia Dawn, Dwan Gallery, New York, Oct 1968. Works by Carl Andre, Hubert Bayer, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Stephen Kaltenbach, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Smithson. [http://www.leftmatrix.com/earthworks.html] [http://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=3668&inventory_id=3666]
 
* ''[http://museum.cornell.edu/earth-art-1969.html 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.  
 
* ''[http://museum.cornell.edu/earth-art-1969.html 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.  
 
* ''[http://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/beyond-earth-art-contemporary-artists-and-the-environment.html Beyond Earth Art: Contemporary Artists and the Environment]'', curated by Andrea Inselmann, The Johnson Museum, 2014.
 
* ''[http://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/beyond-earth-art-contemporary-artists-and-the-environment.html Beyond Earth Art: Contemporary Artists and the Environment]'', curated by Andrea Inselmann, The Johnson Museum, 2014.
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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[[Image:Smithson_Robert_The_Collected_Writings.jpg|thumb|258px|Robert Smithson, ''The Collected Writings'', 1996, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8499 Log].]]
 
===Artists' writings===
 
===Artists' writings===
 
* Robert Smithson, [[Media:Smithson_Robert_1966_1996_Entropy_and_the_New_Monuments.pdf|"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, [[Media:Smithson_Robert_1966_1996_Entropy_and_the_New_Monuments.pdf|"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.
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* Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), "Documents", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14141 Land and Environmental Art]'', ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 190-287, [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16583651W OL].
 
* Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), "Documents", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14141 Land and Environmental Art]'', ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 190-287, [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16583651W OL].
  
===Catalogues of works===
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[[Image:Earth_Art_1969_catalog.jpg|thumb|258px|''Earth Art'' catalogue, 1970, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14149 Log].]]
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===Catalogues===
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14149 Earth Art]'', ed. Nita Jager, New York: Cornell University, 1970. For the 1969 exhibition.
 
* Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), "Works", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14141 Land and Environmental Art]'', ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 44-189, [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16583651W OL].
 
* Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), "Works", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14141 Land and Environmental Art]'', ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 44-189, [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16583651W OL].
  
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* Rosalind Krauss, [[Media:Krauss_Rosalind_1979_Sculpture_in_the_Expanded_Field.pdf|"Sculpture in the Expanded Field"]], ''October'' 8 (Spring 1979), pp 30-44, [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/5ac56185662721171907a68a55dba769#0.01 ARG]; repr. in ''The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture'', ed. Hal Foster, Seattle: Bay Press, 1983, pp 31-42, [[Media:Foster_Hal_ed_The_Anti-Aesthetic_Essays_on_Postmodern_Culture.pdf|PDF]]; repr. in Krauss, ''The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths'', MIT Press, 1985, pp 276-290, [http://designtheory.fiu.edu/readings/krauss_originality_sculpture.pdf PDF].
 
* Rosalind Krauss, [[Media:Krauss_Rosalind_1979_Sculpture_in_the_Expanded_Field.pdf|"Sculpture in the Expanded Field"]], ''October'' 8 (Spring 1979), pp 30-44, [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/5ac56185662721171907a68a55dba769#0.01 ARG]; repr. in ''The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture'', ed. Hal Foster, Seattle: Bay Press, 1983, pp 31-42, [[Media:Foster_Hal_ed_The_Anti-Aesthetic_Essays_on_Postmodern_Culture.pdf|PDF]]; repr. in Krauss, ''The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths'', MIT Press, 1985, pp 276-290, [http://designtheory.fiu.edu/readings/krauss_originality_sculpture.pdf PDF].
 
** [[Media:Krauss_Rosalind_1979_2008_A_escultura_no_campo_ampliado.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. {{br-pt}}
 
** [[Media:Krauss_Rosalind_1979_2008_A_escultura_no_campo_ampliado.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. {{br-pt}}
* 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.
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* 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. [http://www.abbeville.com/bookpage.asp?ISBN=0789208814]
 
* Gilles A. Tiberghien, ''Land Art'', Carré, 1993, 312 pp; new ed., exp., Carré, 2012. [http://www.editionscarre.com/land-art-reedition/land-art.html] {{fr}} Review: [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rvart_0035-1326_1995_num_107_1_348191_t1_0098_0000_002 Rinuy] (1995).
 
* Gilles A. Tiberghien, ''Land Art'', Carré, 1993, 312 pp; new ed., exp., Carré, 2012. [http://www.editionscarre.com/land-art-reedition/land-art.html] {{fr}} Review: [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rvart_0035-1326_1995_num_107_1_348191_t1_0098_0000_002 Rinuy] (1995).
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** ''Land Art'', Princeton University Press, 1995.
 
* Udo Weilacher, ''Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art'', Birkhäuser, 1996, 247 pp.
 
* Udo Weilacher, ''Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art'', Birkhäuser, 1996, 247 pp.
 
* Brian Wallis, "Survey", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14141 Land and Environmental Art]'', ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 18-43, [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16583651W OL].
 
* Brian Wallis, "Survey", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14141 Land and Environmental Art]'', ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 18-43, [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16583651W OL].

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

Artists

Documentation online:

Earth Works exhibition announcement, 1968. A sheet of heavy-stock cardboard flocked with sand.

Exhibitions

  • Earth Works, curated by Virginia Dawn, Dwan Gallery, New York, Oct 1968. Works by Carl Andre, Hubert Bayer, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Stephen Kaltenbach, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Smithson. [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

Robert Smithson, The Collected Writings, 1996, Log.

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.
Earth Art catalogue, 1970, Log.

Catalogues

  • Earth Art, ed. Nita Jager, New York: Cornell University, 1970. For the 1969 exhibition.
  • Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), "Works", in Land and Environmental Art, ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 44-189, OL.

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. [5]
  • Gilles A. Tiberghien, Land Art, Carré, 1993, 312 pp; new ed., exp., Carré, 2012. [6] (French) Review: Rinuy (1995).
    • Land Art, Princeton University Press, 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. [7]
  • 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. [8] [9] Reviews: Linsley (2004), Brady (2004).
  • Ben Tufnell, Land Art, London: Tate Publishing, 2006, 144 pp. [10]
  • Max Andrews (ed.), Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook, London: Royal Society of Arts/Arts Council England, 2006. [11] 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. [12]
  • Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), Nature, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2012. Review: Vogel (2012).

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