LAND ART: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENTAL, EARTHWORKS,
NATURE, SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION ART
A fully illustrated guide to land and environmental art. A newly updated
and revised edition of our best-selling book.
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.
This 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.
William Malpas has written books on Richard Long and land art, as well
as three books on Andy Goldsworthy, including Andy Goldsworthy In
America. Malpas's books on Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy are the
only full-length studies of these artists available.
Includes new illustrations, bibliography, notes. 380 pages. ISBN
9781861714381. www.crmoon.com
