LAND ART IN CLOSE-UP

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong>LAND ART IN CLOSE-UP</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>By William Malpas</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>A fully illustrated up-to-date large format guide to land and environmental art. </p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>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 class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>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 class=ql-align-justify>Fully illustrated. This revised edition includes new illustrations. A large format book (216x280mm). </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Hardcover with a colour laminate cover. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>www.crmoon.com </p><p><br></p>