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* ''Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form: Works-Concepts-Processes-Situations-Information'', curated by [[Harald Szeemann]], Kunsthalle Bern, Mar-Apr 1969. Show featuring a number of land/earthworks. [http://www.ubu.com/historical/szeemann/ Catalogue]. [http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/digital_collections/notable/burkhard_szeemann.html Photographs].
 
* ''Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form: Works-Concepts-Processes-Situations-Information'', curated by [[Harald Szeemann]], Kunsthalle Bern, Mar-Apr 1969. Show featuring a number of land/earthworks. [http://www.ubu.com/historical/szeemann/ Catalogue]. [http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/digital_collections/notable/burkhard_szeemann.html Photographs].
 
* ''Land Art'', TV-exhibition on ARD, curated by [[Gerry Schum]], 35 min, 15 Apr 1969. Featuring Richard Long, Barry Flanagan, Dennis Oppenheim, Marinus Boezem, Robert Smithson, Jan Dibbets, Walter de Maria, and Mike Heizer. See Sleeman 2009. [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/land-art/] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Schum#Land_Art]
 
* ''Land Art'', TV-exhibition on ARD, curated by [[Gerry Schum]], 35 min, 15 Apr 1969. Featuring Richard Long, Barry Flanagan, Dennis Oppenheim, Marinus Boezem, Robert Smithson, Jan Dibbets, Walter de Maria, and Mike Heizer. See Sleeman 2009. [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/land-art/] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Schum#Land_Art]
* ''Earth Air Fire Water: Elements of Art'', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2 Feb-4 Apr 1971. Curated by Virginia Gunter. [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/00119253.1971.9940782 Review]. [http://www.leftmatrix.com/earthairfire.html]
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* ''Earth Air Fire Water: Elements of Art'', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2 Feb-4 Apr 1971. Curated by Virginia Gunter. [http://sci-hub.se/10.1080/00119253.1971.9940782 Review]. [http://www.leftmatrix.com/earthairfire.html]
  
 
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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, [https://archive.org/details/earthworksbeyond00bear OL]; 4th ed., 2006, 240 pp. [http://www.abbeville.com/bookpage.asp?ISBN=0789208814]
 
* 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, [https://archive.org/details/earthworksbeyond00bear OL]; 4th ed., 2006, 240 pp. [http://www.abbeville.com/bookpage.asp?ISBN=0789208814]
  
* Allen Carlson, [https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40231495 "Is Environmental Art an Aesthetic Affront to Nature?"], ''Canadian Journal of Philosophy'' 16:4, Dec 1986, pp 635-650.
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* Allen Carlson, [https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40231495 "Is Environmental Art an Aesthetic Affront to Nature?"], ''Canadian Journal of Philosophy'' 16:4, Dec 1986, pp 635-650.
  
 
* 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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Also environmental art, earth art, Earthwork, 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 Dwan, 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] [3]
  • 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. Images, Catalogue.
  • Ecologic Art, John Gibson, New York, May-Jun 1969. Works by Andre, Christo, Dibbets, Hutchinson, Insley, Long, Morris, Oldenburg, Smithson. Invitation. [4]
  • Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form: Works-Concepts-Processes-Situations-Information, curated by Harald Szeemann, Kunsthalle Bern, Mar-Apr 1969. Show featuring a number of land/earthworks. Catalogue. Photographs.
  • Land Art, TV-exhibition on ARD, curated by Gerry Schum, 35 min, 15 Apr 1969. Featuring Richard Long, Barry Flanagan, Dennis Oppenheim, Marinus Boezem, Robert Smithson, Jan Dibbets, Walter de Maria, and Mike Heizer. See Sleeman 2009. [5] [6]
  • Earth Air Fire Water: Elements of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2 Feb-4 Apr 1971. Curated by Virginia Gunter. Review. [7]
Recent shows and retrospectives

Publications

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.
Journals
  • Interfunktionen 3: "Land Art / Eart Works", Cologne, 1969. [11]
  • Avalanche, 13 issues, eds. Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar, New York: Kineticism Press, 1970-76. Magazine Index. CCIndex. [12]
  • Interfunktionen 7: "Land Art / Eart Art", Cologne, 1971. [13]
Anthologies
  • Alan Sonfist (ed.), Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art, New York: Dutton, 1983, xii+274 pp.
    • Di jing yi shu [地景藝術], trans. Meirong Li, Tai bei shi: Yuan liu, 1996, 434 pp. (Chinese)
  • 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

  • Land Art Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum Television Gallery, eds. Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum and Ursula Schum-Wevers, Berlin, 1969; repr., Hannover, 1970. [14] (German)/(English)
  • Earth Art, ed. Nita Jager, New York: Cornell University, 1970. For the 1969 exhibition.
  • Earth Air Fire Water: Elements of Art, 2 vols., Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1971, 117 pp. [15]
  • Természetesen: természet és művészet Közép-Európában / Naturally: Nature and Art in Central Europe, eds. Anna Bálványos and Johanna Bárd, Budapest: Ernst Múzeum, 1994, 294 pp. Excerpts. (Hungarian)/(English)
  • Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), "Works", in Land and Environmental Art, ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 44-189, OL.
  • Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010, ed. Kelly Baum, Princeton University Art Museum, 2010, 144 pp. [16]
  • Die letzte Freiheit. Von den Pionieren der Land-Art der 1960er Jahre bis zur Natur im Cyberspace / The Last Freedom: From the Pioneers of Land Art in the 1960s to Nature in Cyberspace, ed. Beate Reifenscheid, Milan: Silvana, 2011, 191 pp. (German)/(English)
  • Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, eds. Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon, Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012, 264 pp. Exhibition website, (archived). Exh. held at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 27 May-20 Aug 2012; and Haus der Kunst, Munich, 12 Oct 2012-20 Jan 2013. (English)

Interviews

References

  • Brian Aldiss, Earthworks, Faber & Faber, 1965, OL. A dystopian science fiction novel. in 1967, Robert Smithson took a copy of Earthworks with him on a trip to the Passaic River in New Jersey (where he created The Monuments of Passaic, 1967); he reused the title to describe some of his works. [20]

Literature

  • Antje von Graevenitz, "Land Art", in Kunstübermittlungsformen: vom Tafelbild bis zum Happening : die Medien der bildenden Kunst, ed. Lucie Schauer, Berlin: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 1977. (German)
  • 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.
  • 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, OL; 4th ed., 2006, 240 pp. [21]

Documentary film

  • Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art, dir. James Crump, 2015, 72 min. [41]

Research projects, Resources


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