A profoundly timely and moving personal essay by one of America's
leading art critics Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one
of the 20th century's most significant works of art. Situated in a
remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400
polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) installed
in a grid measuring one mile by one kilometer. A sculpture to be
explored on foot, The Lightning Field is intended to be experienced
over an extended period of time. Critic Kenneth Baker visited The
Lightning Field numerous times over the course of the past 30 years
in order to write this text. Inspired and challenged by this
remarkable artwork, Baker speculates on the course of our
contemporary human condition. But, rather than building on ideas in
narrative sequence, he deploys quotation to effect multiple
perspectives and points of view. Baker's citations and elegantly
crafted prose are arrayed--in a metaphorical parallel to De Maria's
choreographing of the vast landscape of the American Southwest--to
create a compelling text.
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