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===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.
 
** [[Media:Smithson_Robert_1966_2009_Entropia_y_los_nuevos_monumentos.pdf|"Entropía y los nuevos monumentos"]], in Smithson, ''Selección de escritos'', Alias, 2009, pp 15-30. {{es}}
 
** [[Media:Smithson_Robert_1966_2009_Entropia_y_los_nuevos_monumentos.pdf|"Entropía y los nuevos monumentos"]], in Smithson, ''Selección de escritos'', Alias, 2009, pp 15-30. {{es}}
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* ''The Writings of Robert Smithson'', ed. Nancy Holt, New York University Press, 1979; rev. & exp. ed. as Robert Smithson, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8499 The Collected Writings]'', ed. & intro. Jack Flam, University of California Press, 1996, xxviii+389 pp.
 
* ''The Writings of Robert Smithson'', ed. Nancy Holt, New York University Press, 1979; rev. & exp. ed. as Robert Smithson, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8499 The Collected Writings]'', ed. & intro. Jack Flam, University of California Press, 1996, xxviii+389 pp.
  
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* Alan Sonfist, ''Nature, the End of Art: Environmental Landscapes'', Florence, Italy: Gli Ori, 2004.
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* Alan Sonfist (ed.), ''Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art'', New York: Dutton, 1983, 274 pp. [http://www.leftmatrix.com/artintheland.html]
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* Baile Oakes (ed.), ''Sculpting with the Environment: A Natural Dialogue'', New York: Wiley, 1995, [http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7527505M/ OL]. Essays by 33 artists about their ecological work.
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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].
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===Catalogues of works===
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* 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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===Interviews===
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* John K. Grande, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=51DF82927E400746EB466C4A4E10EA49 Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists]'', foreword Edward Lucie-Smith, SUNY Press, 2004, 273 pp. [http://www.sunypress.edu/p-3991-art-nature-dialogues.aspx]
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===Art history and theory===
 
* 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}}
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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.
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* Alan Sonfist (ed.), ''Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art'', New York: Dutton, 1983, 274 pp.
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* 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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* Baile Oakes (ed.), ''Sculpting with the Environment: A Natural Dialogue'', New York: Wiley, 1995, [http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7527505M/ OL]. Essays by 33 artists about their ecological work.
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* Udo Weilacher, ''Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art'', Birkhäuser, 1996, 247 pp.
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* Sue Spaid, ''Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies'', Cincinnati, OH: Contemporary Arts Center, 2002.
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* 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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* Malcolm Andrews, ''Landscape and Western Art'', Oxford University Press, 1998, 256 pp. [http://global.oup.com/academic/product/landscape-and-western-art-9780192842336]
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* Sue Spaid, ''[http://greenmuseum.org/c/ecovention/ 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=qaHaqScD7iAC&printsec=frontcover] [http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520241169] Reviews: [http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/654 Linsley] (2004), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1559103 Brady] (2004).
 
* Suzaan Boettger, ''Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties'', University of California Press, 2002, 316 pp. Covers the period 1967-74. [http://books.google.com/books?id=qaHaqScD7iAC&printsec=frontcover] [http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520241169] Reviews: [http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/654 Linsley] (2004), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1559103 Brady] (2004).
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* Alan Sonfist, ''Nature, the End of Art: Environmental Landscapes'', Florence, Italy: Gli Ori, 2004.
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* Ben Tufnell, ''Land Art'', London: Tate Publishing, 2006, 144 pp. [http://shop.tate.org.uk/land-art/invt/6004]
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* John K. Grande, ''http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=51DF82927E400746EB466C4A4E10EA49 Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists]'', foreword Edward Lucie-Smith, SUNY Press, 2004, 273 pp. [http://www.sunypress.edu/p-3991-art-nature-dialogues.aspx]
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* Max Andrews (ed.), ''Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook'', London: Royal Society of Arts/Arts Council England, 2006. [http://www.lttds.org/projects/landart/] Review: [http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/land_art_a_cultural_ecology_handbook/ 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.
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* Ben Tufnell, ''Land Art'', London: Tate Publishing, 2006.
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* ''Ethics, Place & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography'' 10(3): "Environmental and Land Art", ed. Emily Brady, 2007. [http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cepe20/10/3]
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* Jeffrey Kastner, Brian Wallis (eds.), ''Land and Environmental Art'', Phaidon Press, 1998, 304 pp, [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16583651W OL].
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* Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), ''Nature'', London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2012. Review: [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/08/art_books/nature Vogel] (2012).
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* Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), ''Nature'', London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2012.
 
  
  
 
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Also environmental art, earth art, earthworks, ecological art, eco-art.

Artists

Documentation online: Robert Smithson (1938-73; also on Monoskop and UbuWeb), Michael Heizer (1944), Christo and Jeanne-Claude (1935, 1935-2009), Nancy Holt (1938-2014), Alice Aycock (1946), Mary Miss (1944), Charles Simonds (1945), Richard Long (1945), Hamish Fulton (1946), Alan Sonfist (1946), Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison (1929, 1932), James Turrell (1943), Andrew Rogers, Charles Ross (1937), Chris Drury (1948), Andy Goldsworthy (1956).

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).


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