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245		0	_aLand and Environmental Art _cEditor: Jeffrey Kastner
260			_aNY; _bPhaidon Press; _c1998
300			_a304p; _c30x25cm
520			_aThis text fully documents the 1960s Land Art movement as well as surveying later examples of the environmental art to the present day, featuring exquisite photographs of site-specific works in spectacular locations around the world. Essential reading for both art enthusiasts and anyone concerned with the environment, the book is the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book on the subject. The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by the vast uncultivated spaces of the desert and mountain as well as post-industrial wastelands, artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson moved the earth to create colossal primal symbols. Others punctuated the horizon with man-made signposts, such as Christo's Running Fence or Walter de Maria's Lightning Field. Journeys became works of art for Richard Long while Dennis Oppenheim and Ana Mendieta immersed their bodies in the contours of the land.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aLand Art movement _97907
650			_aN7560-8266 Visual Arts. Special subjects of art
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