LAND ART: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENTAL, EARTHWORKS,
NATURE, SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION ART
A fully illustrated guide to land and environmental art. A newly
updated and revised edition of our best-selling book.
For the land artist, the whole planet is an artist's studio. The
land artist ranges over the whole globe. A desert, a beach, a
field, a forest becomes a studio, a place of creative activity.
This means the very texture and colour and shape and dampness and
springiness and strength and size of moss, for instance. Or a
stone. Or a crevice in a rock formation. The way the light falls on
a patch of grass, the little bits of dead, yellowish grass on top
of the newer, green grass. Pine cones, closed-up. Flowers turning
sunward in the late afternoon. These are the things land artists
deal with in making art. These are the actualities that artists
employ when they create artworks.
This book explores all of the major land, environmental and
earthwork artists of the past 40 years, including James Turrell and
his vast volcano site Hans Haacke's Conceptual art Michael Heizer's
Mid-West earthworks Robert Smithson and his giant spiral, entropic
earthworks Christo's wrapped buildings and islands, Robert Morris's
environments Walter de Maria's Romantic Lightning Field David
Nash's stoves, stones, trees and North Wales environments Hamish
Fulton's walks and words Dennis Oppenheim's concentric snow circles
Richard Long and his art of walking Andy Goldsworthy's natural,
spontaneous, eco-friendly sculptures Alice Aycock's mysterious
underground mazes Mary Miss's sunken pools and pavilions Wolfgang
Laib's delicate, luminous pollen spreads Nancy Holt and her
observation sculptures and the enigmatic floor sculptures of Carl
Andre.
William Malpas has written books on Richard Long and land art,
as well as three books on Andy Goldsworthy, including Andy
Goldsworthy In America. Malpas's books on Richard Long and Andy
Goldsworthy are the only full-length studies of these artists
available.
Includes new illustrations, bibliography, notes. 380 pages.
ISBN 9781861714381. www.crmoon.com
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