{"product_id":"land-art-in-the-u-s-a-complete-guide-to-landscape-environmental-earthworks-nature-sculpture-and-installation-art-in-the-united-states-paperback","title":"Land Art in the U.S.: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the United States - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Malpas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLAND ART IN THE U.S.A. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A new study of land art in America, featuring all of the well-known land artists from the 'golden age' of land art - the 1960s - to the present day. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Fully illustrated, with a bibliography. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e EXTRACT FROM THE CHAPTER ON ROBERT SMITHSON \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Robert Smithson is the key land artist, the premier artist in the world of land art. And he's been a big favourite with art critics since the early Seventies. Smithson was the chief mouthpiece of American earth\/ site  sthetics, and is probably the most important artist among all land artists. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e For Robert Smithson, Carl Andre, Walter de Maria, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim and Tony Smith were 'the more compelling artists today, concerned with 'Place' or 'Site''. Smithson was impressed by Tony Smith's vision of the mysterious aspects of a dark unfinished road and called Smith 'the agent of endlessness'. Smith's  sthetic became part of Smithson's view of art as a complete 'site', not simply an  sthetic of sculptural objects. Smithson was not inspired by ancient religious sculpture, by burial mounds, for example, so much as by decayed industrial sites. He visited some in the mid-1960s that were 'in some way disrupted or pulverized'. He said he was looking for a 'denaturalization rather than built up scenic beauty'. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Robert Smithson said he was concerned, like many land (and contemporary artists with the thing in itself, not its image, its effect, its critical significance: 'I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation'. Smithson's theory of the 'non-site' was based on 'absence, a very ponderous, weighty absence'. Smithson proposed a theory of a dialectic between absence and presence, in which the 'non-site' and 'site' are both interacting. In the 'non-site' work, presence and absence are there simultaneously. 'The land or ground from the Site is placed in the art (Non-Site) rather than the art is placed on the ground. The Non-Site is a container within another container - the room'. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e William Malpas has written books on Richard Long and land art, as well as three books on Andy Goldsworthy, including the forthcoming Andy Goldsworthy In America. Malpas's books on Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy are the only full-length studies of these artists available. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461075157245,"sku":"9781861712400","price":50.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/jqpMhTXG239781861712400.webp?v=1777256662","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/land-art-in-the-u-s-a-complete-guide-to-landscape-environmental-earthworks-nature-sculpture-and-installation-art-in-the-united-states-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}