Land Art: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art

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. ?