Land art

Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s

Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson from atop Rozel Point, Utah, in mid-April 2005 Time Landscape by Alan Sonfist, at LaGuardia and Houston Streets in Manhattan, 1965–present

Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s,[1] largely associated with Great Britain and the United States[2][3][4] but that also includes examples from many other countries. As a trend, "land art" expanded the boundaries of traditional art making in the materials used and the siting of the works. The materials used are often the materials of the Earth, including the soil, rocks, vegetation, and water found on-site, and the sites are often distant from population centers. Though sometimes fairly inaccessible, photo documentation is commonly brought back to the urban art gallery.[3][5][6]

Concerns of the art movement center around rejection of the commercialization of art-making and enthusiasm with an emergent ecological movement. The beginning of the movement coincided with the popularity of the rejection of urban living and its counterpart, and an enthusiasm for that which is rural. Included in these inclinations were spiritual yearnings concerning the planet Earth as home to humanity.[7][8]

## Form

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Museum paper board left on the bank of the river for 4 days. By Jacek Tylicki, S.W. of Lund, Sweden, 473 X 354 mm. 1981 Bunjil, a geoglyph at the You Yangs, Lara, Australia, by Andrew Rogers. The creature has a wing span of 100 metres and 1500 tonnes of rock were used to construct it. Satellite view of Roden Crater, the site of an Earthwork in progress by James Turrell, outside Flagstaff, Arizona Meteorite by Milton Becerra in Ibirapuera Park, XVIII Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil (1985). Side Effect XI, by Eberhard Bosslet, Tias, Lanzarote, (2008) Grande Cretto, by Alberto Burri, Gibellina, (1984–1989) Star Axis, looking north toward the entrance to the Star Tunnel: By Charles Ross, New Mexico, (1971–in progress)

The art form gained traction in the 1960s and 1970s as land art was not something that could easily be turned into a commodity, unlike the "mass produced cultural debris" of the time.[2] During this period, proponents of land art rejected the museum or gallery as the setting of artistic activity and developed monumental landscape projects which were beyond the reach of traditional transportable sculpture and the commercial art market, although photographic documentation was often presented in normal gallery spaces. Land art was inspired by minimal art and conceptual art but also by modern movements such as De Stijl, Cubism, minimalism and the work of Constantin Brâncuși and Joseph Beuys.[9] One of the first earthworks artists was Herbert Bayer, who created Grass Mound in Aspen, Colorado, in 1955.[10][2]

Many of the artists associated with land art had been involved with minimal art and conceptual art. Isamu Noguchi's 1941 design for Contoured Playground in New York City is sometimes interpreted as an important early piece of land art even though the artist himself never called his work "land art" but simply "sculpture". His influence on contemporary land art, landscape architecture and environmental sculpture is evident in many works today.[9]

Alan Sonfist used an alternative approach to working with nature and culture by bringing historical nature and sustainable art back into New York City. His most inspirational work is Time Landscape, an indigenous forest he planted in New York City.[9] He created several other Time Landscapes around the world such as Circles of Time in Florence, Italy documenting the historical usage of the land, and at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum outside Boston. According to critic Barbara Rose, writing in Artforum in 1969, he had become disillusioned with the commodification and insularity of gallery bound art. Dian Parker wrote in ArtNet, "The artist’s ecological message seems more timely now than ever, noted Adam Weinberg, the director emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art. 'Since the ’60s, [Sonfist has] continued to push forward his ideas about the land, particularly urgent right now with global warming all over the world. We need solutions to climate change not only from scientists and politicians but also from artists, envisioning and realizing a greener, more primordial future.'" [11]

In 1967, the art critic Grace Glueck writing in The New York Times declared the first Earthwork to be done by Douglas Leichter and Richard Saba at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.[12] The sudden appearance of land art in 1968 can be located as a response by a generation of artists mostly in their late twenties to the heightened political activism of the year and the emerging environmental and women's liberation movements.

One example of land art in the 20th century was a group exhibition called "Earthworks" created in 1968 at the Dwan Gallery in New York.[13] In February 1969, Willoughby Sharp curated the "Earth Art" exhibition at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. The artists included were Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Neil Jenney, Richard Long, David Medalla, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, and Gunther Uecker. The exhibition was directed by Thomas W. Leavitt. Gordon Matta-Clark, who lived in Ithaca at the time, was invited by Sharp to help the artists in "Earth Art" with the on-site execution of their works for the exhibition.

Perhaps the best known artist who worked in this genre was Robert Smithson whose 1968 essay "The Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects" provided a critical framework for the movement as a reaction to the disengagement of Modernism from social issues as represented by the critic Clement Greenberg.[14] His best known piece, and probably the most famous piece of all land art, is the Spiral Jetty (1970), for which Smithson arranged rock, earth and algae so as to form a long (1500 ft) spiral-shape jetty protruding into Great Salt Lake in northern Utah, U.S. How much of the work, if any, is visible is dependent on the fluctuating water levels. Since its creation, the work has been completely covered, and then uncovered again, by water. A steward of the artwork in conjunction with the Dia Foundation,[15] the Utah Museum of Fine Arts regularly curates programming around the Spiral Jetty, including a "Family Backpacks" program.[16]

Smithson's Gravel Mirror with Cracks and Dust (1968) is an example of land art existing in a gallery space rather than in the natural environment. It consists of a pile of gravel by the side of a partially mirrored gallery wall. In its simplicity of form and concentration on the materials themselves, this and other pieces of land art have an affinity with minimalism. There is also a relationship to Arte Povera in the use of materials traditionally considered "unartistic" or "worthless". The Italian Germano Celant, founder of Arte Povera, was one of the first curators to promote land art.[17]

"Land artists" have tended to be American,[2] with other prominent artists in this field being Carl Andre, Alice Aycock, Walter De Maria, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Peter Hutchinson, Ana Mendieta, Dennis Oppenheim, Andrew Rogers, Charles Ross, Alan Sonfist, and James Turrell. Turrell began work in 1972 on possibly the largest piece of land art thus far, reshaping the earth surrounding the extinct Roden Crater volcano in Arizona. Perhaps the most prominent non-American land artists are the British Chris Drury, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long and the Australian Andrew Rogers.[18] In 1973 Jacek Tylicki begins to lay out blank canvases or paper sheets in the natural environment for the nature to create art.

Some projects by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude (who are famous for wrapping monuments, buildings and landscapes in fabric) have also been considered land art by some, though the artists themselves consider this incorrect.[19] Joseph Beuys's concept of "social sculpture" influenced "land art", and his *7000 Eichen* project of 1982 to plant 7,000 Oak trees has many similarities to land art processes. Rogers' “Rhythms of Life” project is the largest contemporary land-art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of stone sculptures, or geoglyphs, around the globe – 12 sites – in disparate exotic locations (from below sea level and up to altitudes of 4,300 m/14,107 ft). Up to three geoglyphs (ranging in size up to 40,000 sq m/430,560 sq ft) are located in each site.

Land artists in America relied mostly on wealthy patrons and private foundations to fund their often costly projects. With the sudden economic downturn of the mid-1970s, funds from these sources largely stopped. With the death of Robert Smithson in a plane crash in 1973, the movement lost one of its most important figureheads and faded out. Charles Ross continues to work on the Star Axis project, which he began in 1971.[20][21]

Michael Heizer in 2022 completed his work on City, and James Turrell continues to work on the Roden Crater project. In most respects, "land art" has become part of mainstream public art and in many cases the term "land art" is misused to label any kind of art in nature even though conceptually not related to the avant-garde works by the pioneers of land art.

The Earth art of the 1960s were sometimes reminiscent of much older land works, such as Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Native American mounds, the Nazca Lines in Peru, Carnac stones, and Native American burial grounds, and often evoked the spirituality of such archeological sites.[8][3]

## Contemporary land artists

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* Lita Albuquerque (born 1946)
* Betty Beaumont (born 1946)
* Milton Becerra (born 1951)
* Marinus Boezem (born 1934)
* Chris Booth (born 1948)
* Eberhard Bosslet (born 1953)
* Alberto Burri (1915–1995)
* Mel Chin (born 1951)
* Christo and Jeanne Claude Christo (1935–2020) Jeanne (1935–2009)
* Walter De Maria (1935–2013)
* Lucien den Arend (born 1943)
* Agnes Denes (born 1931)
* Jan Dibbets (born 1941)
* Harvey Fite (1903–1976)
* Barry Flanagan (1941–2009)
* Hamish Fulton (born 1946)
* Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956)
* Michael Heizer (born 1944)
* Stan Herd (born 1950)
* Nancy Holt (1938–2014)
* Peter Hutchinson (born 1930)
* Junichi Kakizaki (born 1971)
* Dani Karavan (1930–2021)
* Maya Lin (born 1959)
* Richard Long (born 1945)
* Robert Morris (1931–2018)
* Vik Muniz (born 1961)
* David Nash (born 1945)
* Ugo Rondinone (born 1964)
* Dennis Oppenheim (1938–2011)
* Georgia Papageorge (born 1941)
* Beverly Pepper (1922–2020)
* Tanya Preminger (born 1944)
* Andrew Rogers (born 1947)
* Charles Ross (born 1937)
* Richard Shilling (born 1973)
* Nobuo Sekine (1942–2019)
* Robert Smithson (1938–1973)
* Alan Sonfist (born 1946)
* Tang Da Wu (born 1943)
* James Turrell (born 1943)
* Jacek Tylicki (born 1951)
* Nils Udo (born 1937)
* Bill Vazan (born 1933)
* Strijdom van der Merwe (born 1961)

## See also

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* Ecofeminist art
* Ecological art
* Ecovention
* Environmental art
* Environmental sculpture
* Geoglyphs
* Hill figure
* Land Arts of the American West
* Petroglyph
* Rock art
* Independent public art
* Site-specific art
* Tree Shaping

## References

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### Notes

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1. ^ "Land art – Art Term". Tate.
2. ^ a b c d Kastner, Jeffrey (June 23, 2010). Land and Environmental Art. Phaidon Press. p. 14\. ISBN 9780714856438 – via Google Books.
3. ^ a b c Art in the modern era: A guide to styles, schools, & movements. Abrams, 2002. (U.S. edition of Styles, Schools and Movements, by Amy Dempsey) ISBN 978-0810941724
4. ^ "Earth Art Movement Overview". The Art Story.
5. ^ http://mymodernmet.com Unexpected Land Art Beautifully Formed in Nature.
6. ^ http://www.land-arts.com Land art.
7. ^ ArtSpeak, A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present, By Robert Atkins, Abbeville Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-78921-150-7
8. ^ a b "Land Art: Earthworks that Defined Postwar American Art". Art & Antiques Magazine. April 4, 2012. Archived from the original on March 27, 2018. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
9. ^ a b c Udo Weilacher, Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art. Birkhäuser, 1999, Basel Berlin Boston 1999 ISBN 3-7643-6119-0
10. ^ "Grass Mound | AspenModern". Retrieved 2024-05-04.
11. ^ Parker, Dian. "Earth Art Pioneer Alan Sonfist on Galvanizing a New Generation of Land Artists." ArtNet. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
12. ^ Glueck, Grace (15 October 1967). "Roland Penrose, Picasso Persuader". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
13. ^ "Leftmatrix". leftmatrix.com. Archived from the original on January 7, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
14. ^ Francis Frascina, Art, Politics and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America, Manchester University Press, 1999, p. 142, ISBN 0719044693
15. ^ Arts, Utah Museum of Fine. "UMFA: Utah Museum of Fine Arts". Archived from the original on 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
16. ^ "Family Backpacks Archived 2016-10-18 at the Wayback Machine". Utah Museum of Fine Arts. umfa.utah.org. July 30, 2017.
17. ^ "Observatoire du Land Art". obsart.blogspot.fr. 24 May 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
18. ^ "Monumental Land Art of the United States". seeleyart.com. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
19. ^ Christo; Jeanne-Claude. "Common Errors". Christojeanneclaude.net. Archived from the original on 2003-02-08. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
20. ^ Hass, Nancy. "What Happens When a Single Art Project Becomes a Decades-Long Obsession?," The New York Times, September 18, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
21. ^ Beachy-Quick, Dan. "Cosmic Dancer: Dan Beachy-Quick on Charles Ross’s Star Axis," Artforum, October 28, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2022.

### Further reading

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* Lawrence Alloway, Wolfgang Becker, Robert Rosenblum et al., Alan Sonfist, Nature: The End of Art, Gli Ori, Dist. Thames & Hudson Florence, Italy,2004 ISBN 0-615-12533-6
* Max Andrews (Ed.): Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook. London 2006 ISBN 978-0-901469-57-1
* John Beardsley: Earthworks and Beyond. Contemporary Art in the Landscape. New York 1998 ISBN 0-7892-0296-4
* Suzaan Boettger, Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties. University of California Press 2002. ISBN 0-520-24116-9
* Amy Dempsey: Destination Art. Berkeley CA 2006 ISBN 9780520250253
* Michel Draguet, Nils-Udo, Bob Verschueren, Bruseels: Atelier 340, 1992
* Larisa Dryansky, ""Cartophotographies : de l'art conceptuel au Land Art"", Paris, éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques-Institut national d'histoire de l'art, 2017.
* Jack Flam (Ed.). Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, Berkeley CA 1996 ISBN 0-520-20385-2
* John K. Grande: New York, London. Balance: Art and Nature, Black Rose Books, 1994, 2003 ISBN 1-55164-234-4
* John K. Grande, Edward Lucie-Smith (Intro): Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists, New York 2004 ISBN 978-0-7914-6194-5
* John K. Grande, David Peat & Edward Lucie-Smith (Introduction & forward) Dialogues in Diversity, Italy: Pari Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-88-901960-7-2
* Eleanor Heartney, Andrew Rogers Geoglyphs, Rhythms of Life, Edizioni Charta srl, Italy, 2009 ISBN 978-88-8158-712-4
* Robert Hobbs, Robert Smithson: A Retrospective View, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg / Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
* Jeffrey Kastner, Brian Wallis: Land and Environmental Art. Boston 1998 ISBN 0-7148-4519-1
* Lucy R Lippard: Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory. New York 1983 ISBN 978-0-394-51812-1
* Alessandro Rocca: Natural Architecture. New York (2007) ISBN 1568987218
* Chris Taylor and Bill Gilbert. Land Arts of the American West. Austin: University of Texas Press; 2009. ISBN 978-0-292-71672-8
* Gilles A. Tiberghien: Land Art. Ed. Carré 1993/1995/2012
* Udo Weilacher: Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art. Basel Berlin Boston 1999 ISBN 3-7643-6119-0

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* Memphis Group
* Cyberdelic
* Neue Slowenische Kunst
* Scratch video
* Transgressive
* Retrofuturism
* Young British Artists
* Superfiction
* Taring Padi
* Superflat
* New Leipzig school
* Artist-run initiative
* Artivism
* The Designers Republic
* Grunge design
* Verdadism
* Chinese Apartment Art

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present|

* Amazonian pop art
* Altermodern
* Art for art
* Art game
* Art intervention
* Brandalism
* Classical Realism
* Contemporary African art
* Africanfuturism
* Contemporary Indigenous Australian art
* Crypto art
* Cyborg art
* Excessivism
* Fictive art
* Flat design
* Corporate Memphis
* Hypermodernism
* Hyperrealism
* Idea art
* Internet art
* Post-Internet
* iPhone art
* Kitsch movement
* Lightpainting
* Massurrealism
* Modern European ink painting
* Neo-futurism
* Neomodern
* Neosymbolism
* Passionism
* Post-YBAs
* Relational art
* Skeuomorphism
* Software art
* Sound art
* Stuckism
* Superflat
* SoFlo Superflat
* Superstroke
* Toyism
* Unilalianism
* Vaporwave
* Walking Artists Network

Related topics|

* History of art
* Abstract art
* Asemic writing
* Anti-art
* Avant-garde
* Ballets Russes
* Christian art
* Art in the Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation
* Catholic art
* Icon
* Lutheran art
* Digital art
* Fantastic art
* Folk art
* Hierarchy of genres
* Genre painting
* History painting
* Illuminated manuscript
* Illustration
* Interactive art
* Jewish art
* Kitsch
* Landscape painting
* Modernism
* Modern sculpture
* Late modernism
* Naïve art
* Outsider art
* Portrait
* Prehistoric European art
* Queer art
* Realism
* Shock art
* Trompe-l'œil
* Western painting

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Sculpture

Types of sculpture|

* Architectural sculpture
* Assemblage
* Bas relief
* Bust
* Chalk carving
* Effigy
* Gas sculpture
* Earth art
* Environmental sculpture
* Figurine
* Installation art
* Kinetic sculpture
* Mobile
* Monumental
* Pedimental
* Soap carving
* Soft sculpture
* Statue
* Stele

Styles of sculpture|

* Baroque
* Classical
* Detonography
* Jain sculpture
* Modern sculpture
* Relief
* Renaissance

Elements in sculpture|

* Mass
* Negative space
* Space
* Volume

Traditional materials|

* Wood
* Marble
* Limestone
* Granite
* Porphyry
* Diorite
* Jade
* Ivory
* Clay
* Terracotta
* Bronze
* Gold
* Silver
* Butter
* Soapstone

Modern materials|

* Steel
* Ice
* Jesmonite
* Acrylic
* Concrete
* Plastic
* Fiberglass
* Glass
* Aluminium
* Fabric
* Paper
* Found object

Notable sculptures|

* Venus of Hohle Fels (c. 40–42,000 BP)
* Lion-man (c. 35–41,000 BP)
* Venus of Willendorf ( c. 24–26,000 BP)
* Great Sphinx of Giza (c. 2558–2532 BCE)
* Nefertiti Bust (c. 1345 BCE)
* Mask of Tutankhamun (c. 1323 BCE)
* Abu Simbel temples (c. 1264 BCE)
* Discobolus (c. 450 BCE)
* Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon (438 BCE)
* Colossus of Rhodes (c. 292 BCE)
* Lion Capital of Ashoka (c. 250 BCE)
* Terracotta Army (246–210 BCE)
* Winged Victory of Samothrace (c. 2nd century BCE)
* Laocoön and His Sons (c. 200 BCE – 70 CE)
* Venus de Milo (130–100 BCE)
* Augustus of Prima Porta (c. 1st century CE)
* Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (175 CE)
* Buddhas of Bamiyan (507–554 CE)
* Great Budda of Nara (752 CE)
* Borobudur (c. 780-833 CE)
* Bayon (c. 12th or 13th century CE)
* Angkor Wat (1150 CE)
* Chartes Cathedral (c. 1194–1250 CE)
* Konark Sun Temple (1250 CE)
* Moai, Easter Islands (1250–1500 CE)
* Pietà (1498–1499)
* David (1501–1504)
* Aztec sun stone (1502–1520)
* Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647–1652)
* Veiled Christ (1753)
* Jadeite Cabbage (19th century)
* Nelson's Column (1843)
* Lion of Belfort (1880)
* The Kiss (1882)
* Liberty Enlightening the World, Statue of Liberty (1886)
* The Gates of Hell (1890–1917)
* The Thinker (1904)
* Abraham Lincoln (1920)
* Mount Rushmore Shrine of Democracy (1927–1941)
* Christ the Redeemer (1927–1931)
* The Motherland Calls (1967)
* Fallen Astronaut (1971)
* Mother Ukraine (1981)
* Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue (2008)
* Statue of Unity (2018)

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* Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine
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