Land and Environmental Art

by Kastner, Jeffrey; Wallis, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780714845197
• ISBN10: 0714845191
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-02
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s whenany artists stopped merely representing the land and made their markirectly in the environment. Drawn by the vast uncultivated spaces of theesert and mountain as well as post-industrial wastelands, artists such asichael Heizer, Nancy Holt or Robert Smithson moved the earth to createolossal primal symbols. Others punctuated the horizon with man-madeignposts, such as Christo's Running Fence or Walter de Maria's Lightningield. Journeys became works of art for Richard Long whilst Dennis Oppenheimnd Ana Mendieta immersed their bodies in the contours of the land. This bookraces early developments to the present day, where artists are exploringco-systems and the interface between industrial, urban and rural cultures.longside stunning photographs, sketches and project notes, Kastner compilesn invaluable archive of statements by all the featured artists alongsideelated texts by art historians, critics, philosophers and cultural theoristsncluding Jean Baudrillard, Edmund Burke, Guy Debord, Michael Fried, Dave

Author Biography

Jeffrey Kastner, based in New York, is a writer on art and culture. Senior Editor of Cabinet magazine, he is a former Senior Editor of ARTnews, and Contributing Editor of Art Monthly. As well as lecturing on art in America and Europe, Kastner has contributed reviews and essays on contemporary art and popular culture for numerous magazines, including Artforum, Art & Design, Flash Art, The Economist and frieze.

Brian Wallis is Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York. As well as curating, he has taught Critical Theory at Yale University and was McCracken Fellow at New York University. Wallis has authored and edited numerous books on contemporary culture, among them Art After Modernism (New Museum/David Godine, 1984), Blasted Allegories (New Museum/MIT Press, 1986) and Constructing Masculinity (Routledge, 1995). In 1996 he curated the exhibition 'Counterculture: Alternative Information from the Underground Press to the Internet' at Exit Art in New York. Wallis was formerly senior editor of Art in America and a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, where he organized serveral exhibitions including a Hans Haacke retrospective in 1986.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 10
Survey	p. 18
Works	p. 44
Integration	p. 45
Isamu Noguchi Sculpture to Be Seen from Mars (unrealized). 1947	p. 45
Walter De Mapia Las Vagas Piece. 1969	p. 46
Walter De Maria Desert Cross (destroyed). 1969	p. 47
Dennis Oppenheim Negative Board. 1968	p. 48
Dennis Oppenheim Accumulation Cut. 1969	p. 49
Dennis Oppenheim Time Line. 1968	p. 50
Dennis Oppenheim Cancelled Crop. 1969	p. 50
Jan Dibbets A Trace in the Woods in the Form of an Angle of 30[degree] Crossing a Path. 1969	p. 51
Michael Heizer Rift (deteriorated). 1968	p. 52
Michael Heizer Isolated Mass. Circumflex. 1968	p. 53
Michael Heizer Double Negative. 1969-70	p. 54
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty. 1970	p. 56
Robert Smithson Spiral Hill. 1971	p. 60
Robert Smithson Sunken Island. 1971	p. 61
Robert Smithson Amarillo Ramp. 1973	p. 62
Richard Fleischner Sod Maze. 1974	p. 63
Herbert Bayer Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks. 1979-82	p. 64
James Turrell Roden Craler. 1977-present	p. 65
Andy Goldsworthy Ice Piece. 1987	p. 68
Andy Goldsworthy Torn Hole. 1986	p. 69
Doris Bloom and William Kentridge. Gate. 1995	p. 70
Doris Bloom and William Kentridge. Heart. 1995	p. 71
Interruption	p. 72
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Running Fence. 1972-76	p. 72
Hans Haacke Skyline. 1967	p. 74
Carl Andre Secant. 1977	p. 74
Cart Andre Log Piece (destroyed). 1968	p. 74
Dennis Oppenheim Gallery Transplant. 1969	p. 75
Dennis Oppenheim Salt Flat. 1968	p. 76
Dennis Oppenheim Whirlpool. Eye of the Storm. 1973	p. 77
Dennis Oppenheim Star Skid. 1977	p. 78
Dennis Oppenheim Relocated Burial Ground. 1978	p. 78
Richard Long Stone Circle. 1976	p. 79
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Coast. 1969	p. 80
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Valley Curtain. 1970-72	p. 82
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Surrounded Islands. 1980-83	p. 83
Christo and Jeanne-Claude The Umbrellas. Japan-USA. 1984-91	p. 84
Nancy Holt The Last Map Used to Locate Buried Poem Number 4 for Michael Heizer. 1969-71	p. 86
Nancy Holt Buried Poem Number 4 for Michael Heizer. 1971	p. 86
Nancy Holt Hydra's Head. 1974	p. 87
Nancy Holt Sun Tunnels. 1973-76	p. 88
Nancy Holt Star-Crossed. 1979-81	p. 90
Nancy Holt Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings. 1977-78	p. 90
Michael Heizer Dissipate (deteriorated). 1968	p. 91
Michael Heizer Complex City. 1972-76	p. 92
Robert Smithson Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan. 1969	p. 94
Robert Smithson Gravel Corner Piece. 1968	p. 95
Robert Smithson Chalk and Mirror Displacement. 1969	p. 95
Robert Smithson Closed Mirror Square. 1969	p. 95
Robert Smithson The Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis). 1969	p. 96
Robert Smithson Glue Pour (destroyed). 1970	p. 97
Robert Smithson Asphalt Rundown. 1969	p. 98
Robert Smithson Partially Buried Woodshed. 1970	p. 99
Robert Morris Observatory (first version. destroyed). 1971	p. 100
Robert Morris Grand Rapids Project. 1974	p. 101
Robert Morris Steam (second version). 1974	p. 102
Ant Farm (Chip Lord. Hudson Marquez. Doug Michels) Cadillac Ranch. 1974	p. 103
Alice Aycock A Simple Network of Underground Tunnels. 1975	p. 104
Mary Miss Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys. 1977-78	p. 105
Mary Miss Sunken Pool. 1974	p. 106
Walter De Maria Vertical Earth Kilometer. 1977	p. 107
Walter De Maria The Lightning Field. 1977	p. 108
Walter De Maria The New York Earth Room. 1977	p. 109
Betty Beaumont Cable Piece. 1977	p. 110
Meg Webster Glen. 1988	p. 111
Meg Webster Double Bed for Dreaming. 1988	p. 111
Richard Serra Spin Out (for Robert Smithson). 1973	p. 112
Toshikatsu Endo Epitaph - Cylindrical II. 1990	p. 113
Involvement	p. 114
Walter De Maria Mile Long Drawing (destroyed). 1968	p. 114
Kazuo Shiraga Challenging Mud. 1955	p. 115
Kazuo Shiraga Please Come In. 1955	p. 116
Dennis Oppenheim Parallel Stress. 1970	p. 117
Peter Hutchinson Underwater Dam. 1969	p. 118
Peter Hutchinson Flower Triangle Undersea. 1969	p. 118
Peter Hutchinson Threaded Calabash. 1969	p. 118
Peter Hutchinson Paricutin Volcano Project. 1970	p. 119
Charles Simonds Landscape - Body - Dwelling. 1971	p. 120
Charles Simonds Dwelling. 1974	p. 120
Ana Mendieta Untitled (from the 'Silueta' series). 1979	p. 121
Ana Mendieta Birth. 1982	p. 122
Ana Mendieta Untitled (from the 'The Tree of Life' series). 1978	p. 122
Ana Mendieta Untitled (from the 'Volcano' series). 1979	p. 123
Ana Mendieta Untitled. 1983	p. 123
Ana Mendieta Incantation to Olokun-Yemaya. 1977	p. 123
Richard Long A Line Made by Walking. 1967	p. 124
Richard Long A Line in the Himalayas. 1975	p. 125
Richard Long A Walk by All Roads and Lanes Touching or Crossing an Imaginary Circle. 1977	p. 126
Richard Long Waterlines. 1989	p. 126
Richard Long Circle in Africa. Mulanje Mountain. Malawi. 1978	p. 127
Richard Long A Line in Scotland. Cul Mor. 1981	p. 127
Hamish Fulton Gazing at the Horizon Line. Sky Horizon Ground. Australia. 1982	p. 128
Hamish Fulton The Crossing Place of Two Walks at Ringdom Gompa. 1984	p. 128
Hamish Fulton Rock Fall Echo Dust (A Twelve and a Half Day Walk on Baffin Island Arctic Canada Summer 1988). 1988	p. 129
Hamish Fulton Rock Path. Switzerland. 1986	p. 130
Hamish Fulton Night Changing Shapes. 1991	p. 130
Hamish Fulton No Talking for Seven Days (Walking for Seven Days In A Wood January Full Moon Cairngorms Scotland 1993). 1993	p. 131
Cai Guo The Century with Mushroom Clouds. 1996	p. 132
Christian Philipp Muller Illegal Border Crossing between Austria and the Principality of Liechtenstein. 1993	p. 133
Cildo Meireles Geographical Mutations: Rio-Sao Paulo Border. 1969	p. 134
Cildo Meireles Condensations 2 - Geographical Mutations: Rio-Sao Paulo Border. 1970	p. 135
Implementation	p. 136
Peter Fend Ocean Earth: Europa. 1991	p. 136
Hans Haacke Grass Grows. 1969	p. 138
Hans Haacke Fog. Flooding. Erosion. 1969	p. 139
Hans Haacke Ten Turtles Set Free. 1970	p. 140
Hans Haacke Rhine-Water Purification Plant. 1972	p. 141
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison Portable Farm: The Flat Pastures. 1971-72	p. 142
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison Portable Orchard. Survival Piece No. 5. 1972	p. 142
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison If This Then That (The First Four): San Diego as the Center of the World. 1974	p. 143
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison That Idiot Theseus Did In the Minotaur (Sketch for the Seventh Lagoon. Buffalo Wallow). 1982	p. 144
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison The Lagoon Cycle. 1972-82	p. 144
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison The Lagoon Cycle: Fifth Lagoon. 1972-82	p. 145
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison The Lagoon Cycle. Fourth Lagoon. 1972-82	p. 145
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison Breathing Space for the Sava River. Yugoslavia. 1988-90	p. 146
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison Vision for the Green Heart of Holland. 1995	p. 147
Robert Morris Untitled (reclamation of Johnson Gravel Pit). 1979	p. 148
Harriet Feigenbaum Erosion and Sedimentation Plan for Red Ash and Coal Silt Area - Willow Rings. 1985	p. 149
Alan Sonfist Time Landscape. 1965-78	p. 150
Alan Sonfist Circles of Time. 1986-89	p. 151
Alan Sonfist Pool of Virgin Earth. 1975	p. 152
Mierle Laderman Ukeles Hartford Wash: Washing. Tracks. Maintenance: Outside. 1973	p. 153
Mierle Laderman Ukeles Flow City. 1983-90	p. 154
Bonnie Sherk The Farm. 1974	p. 156
Bonnie Sherk The Raw Egg Animal Theatre (TREAT). 1976	p. 156
Betty Beaumont Ocean Landmark Project. 1978-80	p. 157
Patricia Johanson Fair Park Lagoon. 1981-86	p. 158
Patricia Johanson Endangered Garden. Sunnydale Facilities. Site Plan. 1988	p. 159
Agnes Denes Wheatfield - A Confrontation. 1982	p. 160
Agnes Denes North Waterfront Park Masterplan. 1988	p. 161
Agnes Denes Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule - 10.000 Trees. 10,000 People. 400 Years. 1982	p. 161
Herman de vries The meadow. 1986-present	p. 162
Joseph Beuys 7.000 Oaks. 1982	p. 164
Joseph Beuys 7.000 Oaks. 1996	p. 165
Viet Ngo Devil's Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant. 1990	p. 166
Buster Simpson The Hudson Headwaters Purge - Anti-acid Treatment. 1991	p. 167
Mel Chin Revival Field. Pig's Eye Landfill. 1990-93	p. 168
Platform Effra Redevelopment Agency. 1992	p. 169
Platform Delta. 1993	p. 169
Peter Fend Ocean Earth: Oil Free Corridor. 1993	p. 170
Peter Fend Offshore Soil Rig. 1993	p. 170
Peter Fend Ocean Earth: Site Simulator for Tivat Bay. 1991	p. 172
Peter Fend Ocean Earth: Processed Imagery from Avhrr of the North Sea. 1988	p. 172
Avital Geva Greenhouse. 1977-96	p. 173
Imagining	p. 174
Ian Hamilton Finlay View of the lochan at Little Sparta. Lanarkshire	p. 174
Ian Hamilton Finlay Signature of the Artist Hodler. 1987	p. 175
Douglas Huebler 42 Degree Parallel Piece. 1968	p. 176
Art & Language (Terry Atkinson. Michael Baldwin) Map. 1967	p. 176
John Baldessari The California Map Project. Part 1: California. 1969	p. 178
Gordon Matta-Clark Realty Positions: Fake Estates. 1973	p. 180
Jan Dibbets Perspective Corrections (Square with Two Diagonals). 1968	p. 181
Jan Dibbets 12 Hours Tide Objects with Correction of Perspective. 1969	p. 181
Ian Hamilton Finlay Woodwind Song. 1968	p. 182
Ian Hamilton Finlay See Poussin. Hear Lorrain. 1975	p. 183
Ian Hamilton Finlay Flock. 1991	p. 183
Ian Hamilton Finlay The Present Order. 1983	p. 183
Alighiero Boetti The Thousand Longest Rivers in The World. 1979	p. 184
William Furlong Time Garden: HA HA. 1993	p. 185
Lothar Baumgarten Theatrum Botanicum. 1993-94	p. 186
Christian Philipp Muller A Balancing Act. 1997	p. 187
Mark Dion A Meter of Jungle. 1992	p. 188
Mark Dion The Tasting Garden (proposal). 1996	p. 189
Documents	p. 190
Inception	p. 193
Edmund Burke A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful. 1757	p. 193
Uvedale Price An Essay on the Picturesque. 1796	p. 193
John Brinckerhoff Jackson The World Itself. 1984	p. 194
John Barrell The Idea of Landscape in the Eighteenth Century. 1972	p. 195
Kenneth Friedman Words on the Environment. 1983	p. 195
Dave Hickey Earthscapes. Iandworks and Oz. 1971	p. 196
Willoughby Sharp Notes Toward an Understanding of Earth Art. 1970	p. 199
Michel Foucault Space. Knowledge and Power. 1984	p. 202
Claes Oldenburg I Am for an Art...1961	p. 202
Harold Rosenberg De-aestheticization. 1972	p. 202
Michael Heizer. Dennis Oppenheim. Robert Smithson Interview with Avalanche. 1970	p. 202
Integration	p. 206
Isamu Noguchi Artist's statement. 1926	p. 206
Isamu Noguchi Artist's statement. 1946	p. 206
Jack Kerouac On the Road. 1959	p. 207
Rosalind Krauss Passages in Modern Sculpture. 1977	p. 207
Thomas McEvilley The Rightness of Wrongness: Modernism and Its Alter Ego...1992	p. 207
Jan Dibbets Artist's statement. 1972	p. 208
Diane Waldman Holes without History. 1971	p. 210
Robert Smithson A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects. 1968	p. 211
Robert Smithson The Spiral Jetty. 1972	p. 215
John Coplans The Amarillo Ramp. 1974	p. 218
James Turrell Air Mass. 1993	p. 219
James Turrell Mapping Spaces. 1987	p. 220
Andy Goldsworthy Stone. 1994	p. 220
Doris Bloom and William Kentridge Heart and Gate. 1995	p. 220
Sidney Tillim Earthworks and the New Picturesque. 1968	p. 221
Interruption	p. 223
Michael Fried Art and Objecthood. 1967	p. 223
Carl Andre Artist's statement. 1970	p. 224
Dennis Oppenheim Another Point of Entry: Interview with Alanna Heiss. 1992	p. 224
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Project Notes. 1969-91	p. 226
Nancy Holt Sun Tunnels. 1977. revised. 1995	p. 227
Michael Heizer Interview with Julia Brown. 1984	p. 228
Robert Smithson The Monuments of Passaic: Has Passaic replaced Rome as the eternal city? 1967	p. 229
Robert Morris Notes on Sculpture Part 4: Beyond Objects. 1969	p. 230
Chip Lord Automerica. 1976	p. 231
Alice Aycock Project for a Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels. 1975	p. 231
Kate Linker Mary Miss. 1983	p. 232
Walter De Maria The Lightning Field. 1970	p. 232
Rosalind Krauss Sculpture in the Expanded Field. 1979	p. 233
Donna Harkavy Meg Webster. 1988	p. 234
Richard Serra Spin-Out '72-'73 for Bob Smithson. 1973	p. 234
Involvement	p. 235
Henry David Thoreau Walking. 1861	p. 235
Sigmund Freud Moses and Monotheism. 1938	p. 235
Guy Debord Theory of the Derive. 1956	p. 237
Fujiko Shiraga About Myself and the Outdoor Exhibition. 1955	p. 237
Peter Hutchinson Paricutin Volcano Project. 1970	p. 237
Lucy R. Lippard Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory. 1983	p. 238
Charles Simonds Microcosm to Macrocosm. Fantasy World to Real World: Interview with Lucy R. Lippard. 1974	p. 239
Nancy Spero Tracing Ana Mendieta. 1992	p. 240
Alan Sonfist Autobiography. 1975	p. 240
Richard Long Five. six. pick up sticks. Seven, eight, lay them straight. 1980	p. 241
Hamish Fulton Into a Walk into Nature. 1995	p. 242
Stephen Bann The Map as Index of the Real: Land Art and the Authentication of Travel. 1994	p. 243
Christian Philipp Muller Green Border. 1993	p. 245
Guy Brett Cildo Meireles: Through. 1989	p. 246
Octavio Zaya Cai Guo Qiang. 1996	p. 247
Jane Tomkins Language and Landscape: An Ontology for the Western. 1990	p. 247
Toshikatsu Endo On Fire. 1991	p. 248
Fumio Nanjo Toshikatsu Endo. 1989	p. 248
Implementation	p. 250
Rachel Carson A Fable for Tomorrow. 1962	p. 250
Simon Schama Landscape and Memory. 1995	p. 251
Robert Smithson Untitled (Across the Country...). 1979	p. 251
Jack Burnham Hans Haacke - Wind and Water Sculpture. 1967	p. 251
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison If This Then That (The First Four): San Diego as the Centre of the World. 1974	p. 254
Robert Morris Notes on Art as/and Land Reclamation. 1980	p. 254
Jack Burnham Contemporary Ritual: A Search for Meaning in Post-Historical Terms. 1973	p. 256
Alan Sonfist Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments. 1968	p. 257
Lucy R. Lippard Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory. 1983	p. 258
Lucy R. Lippard The Garbage Girls. 1991	p. 259
Agnes Denes Wheatfield - A Confrontation. 1982	p. 261
Agnes Denes Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule - 10.000 Trees. 10.000 People. 400 Years. 1982-95	p. 262
Michael Fehr herman's Meadow. A Museum. 1992	p. 262
Mierle Laderman Ukeles Flow City. 1995	p. 263
Peter Fend A Post-Facto Statement. 1994	p. 263
Viet Ngo Lemna Systems. 1995	p. 264
Mel Chin Revival Field. 1995	p. 264
Platform Seeing is Believing. 1992	p. 265
Patricia Johanson Fair Park Lagoon. 1981-86. and Endangered Garden. 1987-97	p. 265
Harriet Feigenbaum Reclamation Art. 1986	p. 266
Joseph Beuys Interview with Richard Demarco. 1982	p. 266
Bonnie Sherk Crossroads Community (The Farm). 1977	p. 268
Buster Simpson Hudson Headwater Purge. 1996	p. 268
Betty Beaumont Script from the film The Journey. 1980	p. 268
Smadar Golan To Raise the World. 1987	p. 268
Avital Geva Vital Principles for the Greenhouse. 1993	p. 270
Stephen Jay Gould The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis. 1992	p. 270
Imagining	p. 272
Douglas Huebler Location Piece no. 14. Global Proposal. 1969	p. 272
John Baldessari California Map Project. 1969	p. 272
Gordon Matta-Clark Interview with Avalanche. 1974	p. 273
George Baker Christian Philipp Muller. A Balancing Act. 1997	p. 273
Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin Some Notes. 1967	p. 273
Anne-Marie Sauzeau Boetti Introduction to Classifying the Thousand Longest Rivers in the World. 1977	p. 274
Ian Hamilton Finlay More Detached Sentences on Gardening in the Manner of Shenstone. 1995	p. 274
William Furlong Time Garden. 1993	p. 276
Guy Tortosa A Seasoned Garden. 1995	p. 276
Robert Smithson An Interview with Bruce Kurtz. 1972	p. 277
J.G. Ballard Robert Smithson as Cargo Cultist. 1997	p. 277
Mark Dion The Tasting Garden. 1997	p. 277
Illumination	p. 279
John Beardsley Art and Authoritarianism: Walter De Maria's Lightning Field. 1981	p. 279
Lawrence Alloway Site Inspection. 1976	p. 280
Craig Owens Earthwords. 1979	p. 281
Gerry Schum Introduction to the Television-Exhibition: Land Art. 1969	p. 283
Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. 1936	p. 283
Joseph Masheck The Spiral Jetty Movie. 1984	p. 283
Jean Baudrillard The Hyperrealism of Simulation. 1988	p. 285
Kate Soper Nature/'nature'. 1996	p. 285
Artists' Biographies	p. 288
Authors' Biographies	p. 295
Bibliography	p. 298
Index	p. 301
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