land art

Also known as: Earth art, Earthworks

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major reference

  • St. Andrew, wall painting in the presbytery of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome, 705–707.
    In Western painting: Land art

    The radical interrogation of art’s nature in the 1960s and ’70s inevitably led several artists to renounce the studio and gallery as the locus of their activities and turn to the land as both the site for their work and the medium in…

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Smithson

  • In Robert Smithson

    His large-scale sculptures, called Earthworks, engaged directly with nature and were created by moving and constructing with vast amounts of soil and rocks.

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