Art in the Land a Critical Anthology of Environmental Art Ebook

Also environmental art, earth fine art, Earthwork, ecological art, eco-art.

Contents

• i Artists
• ii Exhibitions
• 3 Publications
  • 3.1 Artists' writings
  • 3.2 Catalogues
  • 3.3 Interviews
  • 3.4 References
• four Literature
• five Documentary film
• 6 Enquiry projects, Resource

Artists [edit]

Documentation online:

• Alice Aycock (1946)
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude (1935, 1935-2009)
• Walter De Maria (1935-2013)
• Chris Drury (1948)
• Hamish Fulton (1946)
• Andy Goldsworthy (1956)
• Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison (1929, 1932)
• Michael Heizer (1944)
• Nancy Holt (1938-2014)
• Ivan Kafka (1952)
• Richard Long (1945)
• Mary Miss (1944)
• Dennis Oppenheim (1938-2011)
• Andrew Rogers
• Charles Ross (1937)
• Charles Simonds (1945)
• Robert Smithson (1938-73; too on Monoskop and UbuWeb)
• Alan Sonfist (1946)
• James Turrell (1943)
• Jacek Tylicki (1951)
• Nicolás García Uriburu (1937)
• Ends of the Globe: Land Art to 1974, online catalogue.

Earth Works exhibition announcement, 1968. A canvass of heavy-stock paper-thin flocked with sand.

Exhibitions [edit]

• Earth Works, curated by Virginia Dwan, Dwan Gallery, New York, Oct 1968. Works by Carl Andre, Hubert Bayer, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Stephen Kaltenbach, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Smithson. [1] [2] [3]
• World Art, curated by Willoughby Sharp, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University, New York, Feb 1969. Works by Walter De Maria, January Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Neil Jenney, Richard Long, David Medalla, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, and Gunther Uecker. Images, Catalogue.
• Ecologic Fine art, John Gibson, New York, May-Jun 1969. Works past Andre, Christo, Dibbets, Hutchinson, Insley, Long, Morris, Oldenburg, Smithson. Invitation. [4]
• Alive In Your Head: When Attitudes Get Form: Works-Concepts-Processes-Situations-Data, curated past Harald Szeemann, Kunsthalle Bern, Mar-Apr 1969. Testify featuring a number of land/earthworks. Catalogue. Photographs.
• Land Art, TV-exhibition on ARD, curated by Gerry Schum, 35 min, 15 April 1969. Featuring Richard Long, Barry Flanagan, Dennis Oppenheim, Marinus Boezem, Robert Smithson, January Dibbets, Walter de Maria, and Mike Heizer. See Sleeman 2009. [5] [half-dozen]
• Earth Air Burn H2o: Elements of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2 Feb-4 Apr 1971. Curated by Virginia Gunter. Review. [vii]

Recent shows and retrospectives

• Land Art. 1960-80s. Artists from Slovakia, Czech republic and Russia, curated by Daniela Čarná and Natalia Goncharova, National Middle for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Dec 2009-Jan 2010. [viii] [9]
• Nobody's Belongings: Art, Land, Infinite, 2000-2010, curated by Kelly Baum, Princeton University Fine art Museum, Oct 2010-Feb 2011. Video from panel discussion.
• Die letzte Freiheit. Von den Pionieren der Land-Fine art der 1960er Jahre bis zur Natur im Cyberspace, Ludwig-Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, 15 April-xvi Oct 2011.
• Ends of the World: Land Art to 1974, curated by Miwon Kwon and Philipp Kaiser, Museum of Contemporary Fine art, Los Angeles, 2012.
• Beyond Earth Art: Gimmicky Artists and the Environs, curated by Andrea Inselmann, The Johnson Museum, 2014.
• The Green Begins To Show, Broadway 1602, New York, 2016.

Publications [edit]

Robert Smithson, The Collected Writings, 1996, Log.

Artists' writings [edit]

• Robert Smithson, "Entropy and the New Monuments", Artforum 5:x, Jun 1966, pp 26-31; repr. in The Writings of Robert Smithson, ed. Nancy Holt, New York University Printing, 1979, nine-18; repr. in Smithson, The Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam, Academy of California Press, 1996.
  • "Entropía y los nuevos monumentos", in Smithson, Selección de escritos, Alias, 2009, pp fifteen-30. (Spanish)

• Robert Smithson, "A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects", Artforum 7:1, Sep 1968, pp 44-l; repr. in The Writings of Robert Smithson, ed. Nancy Holt, New York Academy Press, 1979, pp 82-91; repr. in Smithson, The Nerveless Writings, ed. Jack Flam, University of California Press, 1996.

• Gyorgy Kepes (ed.), Arts of the Environment, New York: Chiliad. Braziller, 1972.
  • El arte del ambiente, trans. Nely Coarasa, Buenos Aires: Victor Leru, 1978. (Spanish)

• Douglas Davis, "Environmental Space and Time: The 'Living' Work of Art", in Davis, Art and the Time to come, New York and Washington: Praeger, 1973, pp 92-95. [10]

• The Writings of Robert Smithson, ed. Nancy Holt, New York University Press, 1979; rev. & exp. ed. every bit Robert Smithson, The Nerveless Writings, ed. & intro. Jack Flam, University of California Press, 1996, xxviii+389 pp.

• Alan Sonfist, Nature, the Finish of Fine art: Ecology Landscapes, Florence, Italy: Gli Ori, 2004.

Journals

• Interfunktionen 3: "Land Art / Eart Works", Cologne, 1969. [eleven]
• Avalanche, xiii issues, eds. Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar, New York: Kineticism Press, 1970-76. Magazine Alphabetize. CCIndex. [12]
• Interfunktionen seven: "Land Art / Eart Art", Cologne, 1971. [13]

Anthologies

• Alan Sonfist (ed.), Fine art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Fine art, New York: Dutton, 1983, xii+274 pp.
  • Di jing yi shu [地景藝術], trans. Meirong Li, Tai bei shi: Yuan liu, 1996, 434 pp. (Chinese)
• Baile Oakes (ed.), Sculpting with the Surround: A Natural Dialogue, New York: Wiley, 1995, OL. Essays by 33 artists about their ecological piece of work.
• Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), "Documents", in Country and Environmental Fine art, ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 190-287, OL

Globe Fine art catalogue, 1970, Log.

Catalogues [edit]

• Country Art Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum Television Gallery, eds. Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum and Ursula Schum-Wevers, Berlin, 1969; repr., Hannover, 1970. [fourteen] (German)/(English language)
• Earth Art, ed. Nita Jager, New York: Cornell Academy, 1970. For the 1969 exhibition.
• Earth Air Burn Water: Elements of Fine art, 2 vols., Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1971, 117 pp. [xv]
• Természetesen: természet és művészet Közép-Európában / Naturally: Nature and Art in Central Europe, eds. Anna Bálványos and Johanna Bárd, Budapest: Ernst Múzeum, 1994, 294 pp. Excerpts. (Hungarian)/(English)
• Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), "Works", in Country and Ecology Art, ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Press, 1998, pp 44-189, OL.
• Nobody's Property: Fine art, Land, Space, 2000-2010, ed. Kelly Baum, Princeton University Art Museum, 2010, 144 pp. [16]
• Die letzte Freiheit. Von den Pionieren der Land-Art der 1960er Jahre bis zur Natur im Net / The Last Freedom: From the Pioneers of State Fine art in the 1960s to Nature in Net, ed. Beate Reifenscheid, Milan: Silvana, 2011, 191 pp. (German)/(English language)
• Ends of the Earth: Land Fine art to 1974, eds. Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon, Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012, 264 pp. Exhibition website, (archived). Exh. held at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 27 May-20 Aug 2012; and Haus der Kunst, Munich, 12 Oct 2012-twenty Jan 2013. (English)

Interviews [edit]

• John K. Grande, Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists, forew. Edward Lucie-Smith, SUNY Press, 2004, 273 pp. [17]
• John K. Grande, Art, Space, Environmental: 2 Views, Twenty Interviews, forew. Edward Lucie-Smith, Montréal: Black Rose Books, 2018, 190 pp. [eighteen] [19]

References [edit]

• Brian Aldiss, Earthworks, Faber & Faber, 1965, OL. A dystopian scientific discipline fiction novel. in 1967, Robert Smithson took a re-create of Earthworks with him on a trip to the Passaic River in New Bailiwick of jersey (where he created The Monuments of Passaic, 1967); he reused the title to describe some of his works. [xx]

Literature [edit]

• Antje von Graevenitz, "State Art", in Kunstübermittlungsformen: vom Tafelbild bis zum Happening : die Medien der bildenden Kunst, ed. Lucie Schauer, Berlin: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 1977. (German)

• Rosalind Krauss, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field", October 8 (Leap 1979), pp 30-44, ARG; repr. in The Anti-Artful: Essays on Postmodern Culture, ed. Hal Foster, Seattle: Bay Press, 1983, pp 31-42, PDF; repr. in Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, MIT Printing, 1985, pp 276-290, PDF.
  • translations

• John Beardsley, Excavation and Across: Gimmicky Fine art in the Landscape, New York: Abbeville Press, 1984, 144 pp; 2nd ed., 1989, 176 pp; 3rd ed., 1998, 224 pp, OL; quaternary ed., 2006, 240 pp. [21]

• Allen Carlson, "Is Ecology Art an Aesthetic Barb to Nature?", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16:four, Dec 1986, pp 635-650.

• Gilles A. Tiberghien, Land Art, Carré, 1993, 312 pp; new ed., exp., Carré, 2012. [22] (French) Review: Rinuy (1995).
  • Land Art, Princeton University Press, 1995.

• John M. Grande, Residuum: Art and Nature, Montréal: Blackness Rose Books, 1994, 250 pp; new ed., 2004, 266 pp. [23].
  • Fine art, nature et société, pref. Guy Sioui Durand, trans. Claude Frappier, Montréal: Écosociété, 1997, 265+[x] pp. (French)

• Udo Weilacher, Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art, Birkhäuser, 1996, 247 pp.

• Marga Bijvoet, Art As Inquiry: Toward New Collaborations Betwixt Art, Scientific discipline, and Technology, Peter Lang, 1997. See esp. Part II.
  • Kunst-Forschung, due north.d. (German)

• Brian Wallis, "Survey", in Land and Environmental Art, ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Phaidon Printing, 1998, pp 18-43, OL.

• Malcolm Andrews, Mural and Western Fine art, Oxford University Printing, 1998, 256 pp. [24]

• Sue Spaid, Ecovention: Electric current Art to Transform Ecologies, Cincinnati, OH: Contemporary Arts Eye, 2002.

• Suzaan Boettger, Excavation: Fine art and the Mural of the Sixties, University of California Press, 2002, 316 pp. Covers the period 1967-74. [25] [26]. Reviews: Linsley, Brady. [27]

• Artforum: "Art'south New Terrain", Summer 2005. Special section on country art. [28]

• Ben Tufnell, Land Art, London: Tate Publishing, 2006, 144 pp. [29]

• Max Andrews (ed.), Country, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook, London: Regal Society of Arts/Arts Council England, 2006. [30] Review: Dillon (2007). A compendium of essays, dialogues and commissioned pages by artists, new and reprinted texts and interviews by ecologists, cultural theorists, activists and curators.

• Ideals, Place & Environment: A Journal of Philosophy & Geography ten(3): "Ecology and Land Art", ed. Emily Brady, 2007. [31]

• Dominique Chateau, Herman Parret, Pere Salabert (eds.), Esthétiques de la nature, Paris: Sorbonne, 2007. [32] (French)

• Suzaan Boettger, "Excavating Land Art by Women in the 1970s, Discoveries and Oversights", Sculpture, Nov 2008; exp. as "Looking at, and Overlooking, Women Working in Land Fine art in the 1970s", Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD), 2015.

• Joy Sleeman, "Land Fine art and the Moon Landing", Journal of Visual Civilization viii:3, 2009, pp 299-328. (English)

• Amanda Boetzkes, The Ethics of Earth Art, University of Minnesota Press, 2010, 248 pp. [33]

• Joy Sleeman, ""Like Two Guys Discovering Neptune": Transatlantic Dialogues in the Emergence of Land Art", in Anglo-American Commutation in Postwar Sculpture, 1945-1975, ed. Rebecca Peabody, Los Angeles: Getty, 2011, pp 148-163.

• Jeffrey Kastner (ed.), Nature, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2012. Review: Vogel (2012).

• Linda Weintraub, To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet, University of California Press, 2012, 384 pp. [34] [35]

• Andrew Brown, Art and Ecology Now, Thames & Hudson, 2014, 256 pp. [36]

• James Nisbet, Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s, MIT Press, 2014, 280 pp. [37]

• Lucy R. Lippard, Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing Due west, The New Press, 2014, 208 pp. [38]

• Maja Fowkes, The Greenish Bloc: Neo-Avant-garde Fine art and Ecology nether Socialism, Budapest and New York: Key European University Press, 2015, eight+299 pp. Reviews: Cseh-Varga (Springerin), Debeusscher (Critique d'fine art).

• James Nisbet, "Gimmicky Ecology Art", in The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, eds. Ursula Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann, London: Routledge, 2017, pp 301-312.

• Marker Cheetham, Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the '60s, Penn State University Press, 2018, 256 pp. [39]

• Revista ARTA 33: "Eco Art", ed. Marilena Preda-Sânc, Bucharest: Revista Arta, 2018. Excerpt. [40] (Romanian)/(English)

• Christopher Heuer, Rebecca Zorach (eds.), Ecologies, Agents, Terrains, Williamstown, MA: Clark Art Plant, and New Haven: and Yale Academy Press, 2018, 334 pp. [41]

• Ondřej Navrátil , Řečiště a vlna: České umění a environmentální problematika na počátku 21. století, Dexon Art, and Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2021, 320 pp. Review: Špinková (Artalk). (Czech)

Documentary motion-picture show [edit]

• Troublemakers: The Story of Country Art, dir. James Crump, 2015, 72 min. [42]

Research projects, Resources [edit]

• Land Art Gimmicky, an initiative of LACDA foundation in Drenthe, the Netherlands
• Observatoire du state art blog
• Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) directory

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