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

Malpas, William

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1861712324 ISBN 13: 9781861712325

Casa editrice: Crescent Moon Pub, 2008

Riassunto

LAND ART

A fully illustrated 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.

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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 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.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Crescent Moon Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1861712324
• ISBN 13: 9781861712325
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 302