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

ISBN-13: 9781861712325 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 376 str.

William Malpas

Opis

LAND ART

A fully illustrated guide to land and environmental art.

For the land artist, the whole planet is an artists 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.

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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 Haackes Conceptual art • Michael Heizers Mid-West earthworks • Robert Smithson and his giant spiral, entropic earthworks • Christos wrapped buildings and islands, • Robert Morriss environments • Walter de Marias Romantic Lightning Field • David Nashs stoves, stones, trees and North Wales environments • Hamish Fultons walks and words • Dennis Oppenheims concentric snow circles • Richard Long and his art of walking • Andy Goldsworthys natural, spontaneous, eco-friendly sculptures • Alice Aycocks mysterious underground mazes • Mary Misss sunken pools and pavilions • Wolfgang Laibs 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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