Radius Books
Radius Books
The “Land Art” movement emerged in the 1970s when some adventurous artists
departed the New york gallery scene to make art in the open landscapes of the
American West. Some of the most famous examples include Robert Smithson’s
Spiral Jetty, James Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona, and Walter de Maria’s The
Lightning Field in New Mexico. Since then, the Land Art genre has been subsumed
under the more general term “environmental art,” which recogizes that what we
now think of as the “environment” has broadened to include the global community,
the microscopic world, cyber space and suburban sprawl as well as wilderness and
the urban environment.
In the summer and fall of 2009, over 25 New Mexico arts organizations have joined
together to present LAND/ART, which explores the relationship between land, art
and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, performances
and a culminating book. Focusing on “environmental” or “Land” art, the collaboration
seeks to address our changing relationship to nature, and offer a new or previously
unconsidered understanding of the places in which we live. The book features the
work of a sampling of the over 60 participating artists including The Center for Land
Use Interpretation, Michael P. Berman, Erika Blumenfeld, David Taylor, Basia Irland,
Patrick Dougherty, Katie Holten, Yoshimi Hayashi, Shelley Niro and many more.
www.landartnm.org
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