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LAND ART A fully illustrated and complete guide to land and environmental art. 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 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. Here are towers, stars, stones, pools, tunnels, pipes,maps, chasms, ladders, mounds, scars, mirrors, cones, furrows, mazes, circles, hills and gardens. ?

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Book category Books in English The arts Art forms Non-graphic art forms

• Full title: Land Art
• Author: William Malpas
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• EAN: 9781861710628
• ISBN: 9781861710628
• ID: 06389446
• Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing
• Weight: 496 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 159 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. November 2004

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