The definitive survey of Land Art and contemporary environmental art, now available in paperback
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.
Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art
This book is the culmination and documentation of this six-month, and features the work of over forty artists including Michael Berman, Erika Blumenfeld, David Taylor, Basia Irland, Patrick Dougherty, Catalina Delgado Trunk, and Shelley ...
This new edition of his classic study includes a new preface by the author and a foreword by William Cronon.
A critical survey of land and environmental art. The book includes chapters on land artist such as Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Christo, Michael Heizer, Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy.
Where Land and Water Meet examines the reasoning behind and effects of these interventions, gleaning lessons from their successes and failures.
An ambitious intervention into eco-criticism and the environmental humanities, this volume provides original ways to understand the issues and practices of eco art in the Anthropocene.
The book is illustrated with examples of art by nearly thirty different contemporary artists.
So here are the plants and animals of the Los Angeles basin, its rivers and watersheds. Here are the landscapes of fact and fantasy, the historical actors, events, and circumstances that have proved transformative over and over again.
If you share a concern for the environmental crisis and believe art can provide new options, this book is for you!