Earthwork / Land Art

アースワーク／ランドアート / late 1960s–1970s / Style / Environment and Contemporary Art

Shapes the landscape itself with earth, stone, branches, terrain and machinery, folding place, time, erosion and documentation into the work.

Intervention in terrain / Earth and stone / Vast scale / Erosion and time

Earthwork / Land Art — スミッソン『スパイラル・ジェッティ』1970（CC BY-SA 4.0）Earthwork / Land Art — スパイラル・ジェッティ 2018（CC BY-SA 4.0）Earthwork / Land Art — スパイラル・ジェッティを歩く（CC BY-SA 4.0）
スミッソン『スパイラル・ジェッティ』1970（CC BY-SA 4.0） ／ スパイラル・ジェッティ 2018（CC BY-SA 4.0） ／ スパイラル・ジェッティを歩く（CC BY-SA 4.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Not natural materials brought indoors. Consider land ownership, environmental cost, Indigenous places and the power of documentation.
Further study
Robert Smithson / Ana Mendieta / Richard Long / Nancy Holt

Related entries

Source: MoMA — Earthwork

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