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{"authorDescription":"Edited by Jeffrey Kastner, with a survey by Brian Wallis","bookshot2d":null,"bookshot3d":null,"bookshot3dSquare":null,"categories":[],"date":"","editionId":11552,"guid":"c73cbab4-4d33-4584-8dd6-399126550740","images":[],"markets":{"AUD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"55.00","show":false},"CAD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"59.95","show":false},"EUR":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"39.95","show":false},"GBP":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"27.95","show":false},"TEST":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"0.00","show":false},"USD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"45.00","show":false}},"related":[],"sku":"9780714845197","source":"BOOKs","specifications":{"binding":"Paperback","colIlls":"206","extent":"304","language":"English","lenInch":"11 3/8","lenMm":"290","weightKilo":"1.53","widthInch":"9 7/8","widthMm":"250"},"status":false,"subtitle":" ","title":"Land and Environmental Art","uri":"","webAuthorDescription":"\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Kastner, based in New York, is a writer on art and culture. Senior Editor of \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c/i\u003e magazine, he is a former Senior Editor of \u003ci\u003eARTnews\u003c/i\u003e, and Contributing Editor of \u003cem\u003eArt Monthly\u003c/em\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c/i\u003e, \u003cem\u003eArt \u0026amp; Design\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFlash Art, The Economist\u003c/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003efrieze\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian 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 \u003cem\u003eArt After Modernism \u003c/em\u003e(New Museum/David Godine, 1984), \u003cem\u003eBlasted Allegories \u003c/em\u003e(New Museum/MIT Press, 1986) and \u003cem\u003eConstructing Masculinity\u003c/em\u003e (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 \u003cem\u003eArt in America \u003c/em\u003eand a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, where he organized serveral exhibitions including a Hans Haacke retrospective in 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","webDescription":"","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"\u003cp\u003eThe definitive survey not only of Land Art but also of contemporary environmental art, featuring exquisite photographs of site-specific works in spectacular locations around the world. Essential reading for both art enthusiasts and anyone concerned with the environment, the book is the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book on the subject.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by the vast uncultivated spaces of the desert and mountain as well as post-industrial wastelands, artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson moved the earth to create colossal primal symbols. Others punctuated the horizon with man-made signposts, such as Christo's \u003ci\u003eRunning Fence\u003c/i\u003e or Walter de Maria's \u003ci\u003eLightning Field\u003c/i\u003e. Journeys became works of art for Richard Long while Dennis Oppenheim and Ana Mendieta immersed their bodies in the contours of the land. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book traces early developments to the present day, as artists are exploring eco-systems and the interface between industrial, urban and rural cultures. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eSurvey \u003c/b\u003eBrian Wallis discusses the key artists, works and issues that define Land Art historically, as well as its later ramifications.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorks\u003c/b\u003e This book fully documents the 1960s Land Art movement and surveys examples of Environmental Art to the present day. Earthworks, environments, performances and actions by artists ranging from Ana Mendieta in the 1970s and 80s to Peter Fend in the 1990s are illustrated with breathtaking photographs, sketches and project notes. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eDocuments \u003c/b\u003eJeffrey Kastner has compiled an invaluable archive of statements by all the featured artists alongside related texts by art historians, critics, philosophers and cultural theorists including Jean Baudrillard, Edmund Burke, Guy Debord, Michael Fried, Dave Hickey, Rosalind Krauss, Lucy R Lippard, Thomas McEvilley and Simon Schama.\u003c/p\u003e","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;What makes the book invaluable is the comprehensiveness of its illustrations and the fascinating collection of documents in its final section.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eModern Painters\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The inclusiveness of this compendium of sparkling photographs and previously published texts... is practically encyclopaedic.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eCollege Art Association U.A.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;What an enticing book this is. It is great fun to browse through at leisure and it also serves as a serious scholarly reference.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Art Newspaper\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;This worthy tome... A good coffee table book to impress those art college and environmentalist friends.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eHarvey Nichols Magazine\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;An excellent introductory essay by the critic Brian Wallis lists the key artists (Christo, Holt, Long, etc.), works and issues that define Land Art historically, as well as its later ramifications.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eVenue\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;This volume appears in a new Phaidon series, \u003cem\u003eThemes and Movements\u003c/em\u003e, concerned with the documentation, both verbal and visual, of post-war art... All the key practitioners are here (Smithson, Heizer, De Maria, Christo, Long etc), along with some less familiar names, and the photographs \u0026#8211; for most of us, the only access to these works \u0026#8211; are accompanied by a generous, imaginative selection from contemporary texts.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eArchitects\u0026#8217; Journal\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cem\u003eLand and Environmental Art\u003c/em\u003e is so massive it\u0026#8217;s almost land art itself... Huge, handsomely designed... The photographs in the book are gorgeous (the opening panorama of De Maria\u0026#8217;s \u003cem\u003eThe Lightning Field\u003c/em\u003e is worth the book\u0026#8217;s price alone).\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eAzure Magazine\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;This extraordinary book... In his Survey, Brian Wallis gives a good overview of the art historical context of the early works, demonstrating their genesis in relation to minimalism and the modernist ideologies of critics such as Greenberg and Michael Fried. He also manages to give a sense of the radical ferment of the time: the earliest earthworks were made at the height of the Vietnam War, around the time of the student riots in Paris... What makes the book invaluable is the comprehensiveness of its illustrations and the fascinating collection of documents in its final section. Divided by the colour of their headlines into artist\u0026#8217;s statements, critical comment, and writings on the cultural contexts of land and environmental art, these documents vastly expand the sweep of the book. From contemporary reviews and interviews with artists to extracts from historical texts, novels and exhibition catalogues, this section could have stood alone as a source-book and an evocation of the times and thinking behind this art.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eModern Painters\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The chief merit of this stout volume is its documentary value. Anyone interested in this sphere of art-making should acquire the book forthwith.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eBurlington Magazine\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The inclusiveness of this compendium of sparkling photographs and previously published texts by artists, critics, scientists, and essayists is practically encyclopaedic... Wallis\u0026#8217;s sophisticated analytical voice.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eCollege Art Association, USA (www.caareviews.org)\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cem\u003eLand and Environmental Art\u003c/em\u003e is a wonderfully conceived and lavishly packaged survey of environmental art from the 1960s to the present. It provides a rich array of resources to help readers to understand and appreciate this tradition... Were Land and Environmental Art to end here, it would already be a splendid book, but a third section, titled \u0026#8216;Documents\u0026#8217;, offers some 100 pages of excerpts from a variety of sources, all of which have a bearing on the works presented earlier. Most of the excerpts are brief and they constitute a wonderful intellectual smorgasbord... What an enticing book this is. It is great fun to browse through at leisure and it also serves as a serious scholarly reference.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Art Newspaper\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;How, then, will this sumptuous offering from Phaidon be used in Britain? The hope is that it will rapidly take its place as the big book on the subject and gradually inject critical rigour and a sense of history into current British art in and about landscape. Certainly it deserves that role. Here at last are all the vital texts and images in the field gathered together and attractively arranged.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003ePaul Usherwood, Art Monthly\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;An essential addition on an art practice, whose legacy continues to influence the work of contemporary artitsts, landscapers, and architects.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eArt \u0026amp; Architecture Journal\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","webShortDescription":"The definitive survey of Land Art and contemporary environmental art, now available in paperback"}