Land Art

<p>LAND ART</p><p>A fully illustrated and complete guide to land and environmental art.</p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>This new 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.</p><p>Here are towers stars stones pools tunnels pipesmaps chasms ladders mounds scars mirrors cones furrows mazes circles hills and gardens.</p><p></p>