LAND ART AND LAND ARTISTS

LAND ART AND LAND ARTISTS: POCKET GUIDEBy William MalpasA fully illustrated pocket guide to land and environmental art.Here are towers stars stones pools tunnels pipesmaps chasms ladders mounds scars mirrors cones furrows mazes circles hills and gardens.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.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.REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONSFully illustrated with a newly revised text for this edition. Bibliography and notes. ISBN 971861714039. 292 pages.www.crmoon.comLAND ART AND LAND ARTISTS: POCKET GUIDECONTENTSAcknowledgements • 6Illustrations • 71 Introduction • 152 The Alchemy of Matter: Land Art Aesthetics • 213 The Birth of Land Art In 1960s Culture • 514 Land Art Gender Sexuality and the Body • 595 Land Art and Religion • 666 Land Art and British Culture • 737 Robert Smithson • 778 Carl Andre • 859 James Turrell • 9210 Dennis Oppenheim • 9611 Robert Morris • 10112 Nancy Holt • 10513 Alice Aycock • 10814 Mary Miss • 11215 Michael Heizer • 11416 Walter de Maria • 11717 Other Land Artists in the U.S.A. • 12118 Chris Drury • 12519 David Nash • 13820 Richard Long • 14421 Andy Goldsworthy • 15922 Land Artists in Europe • 194Illustrations • 209