Land art
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Also environmental art, earth art, earthworks, 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).
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
- 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.
- "Entropía y los nuevos monumentos", in Smithson, Selección de escritos, Alias, 2009, pp 15-30. (Spanish)
- 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.
- 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)
- Alan Sonfist (ed.), Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art, New York: Dutton, 1983, 274 pp.
- Baile Oakes (ed.), Sculpting with the Environment: A Natural Dialogue, New York: Wiley, 1995, OL. Essays by 33 artists about their ecological work.
- 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. [3] [4] Reviews: Linsley (2004), Brady (2004).
- Alan Sonfist, Nature, the End of Art: Environmental Landscapes, Florence, Italy: Gli Ori, 2004.
- 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. [5]
- Ben Tufnell, Land Art, London: Tate Publishing, 2006.
- Jeffrey Kastner, Brian Wallis (eds.), Land and Environmental Art, Phaidon Press, 1998, 304 pp, OL.
- Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), Nature, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2012.