art as land
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Art as Land/ Art as Memory: Reconsidering the Aims of Land Art
Anne Reed
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Nancy Holt, Sun TunnelsLocated in the Great Basin Desert outside of Lucin, Utah
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Exhibition design images for Nancy Holt: Sightlines Miriam and Ida D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
Nancy Holt, Sun TunnelsLocated in the Great Basin Desert outside of Lucin, Utah
Christine Oatman, Icicle Circle and Fire. 1973
Callanish Stones, Western Isles of Scotland. c. 3400 BCE
Michael Heizer. Water Strider, of the Effigy Tumuli Sculptures1983-85 Buffalo Rock State Park, IL
Map of Michael Heizer's Effigy Tumuli at Buffalo Rock, IL
Michael Heizer. Water Strider, of the Effigy Tumuli Sculptures1983-85 Buffalo Rock State Park, IL
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty. 1970northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah
Salt crystals on the Spiral Jetty
Spiral Jetty Aerial photograph
Nine Mile Canyon, Utah Petroglyphs, Spiral and Serpent Petroglyph
The chamber and passage at Newgrange
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty. 1970northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah
"I'm building this work for later. I'm interested in making a work of art that will represent all the civilization to this point." - Michael Heizer
Michael Heizer, City, Complex One
Robert Smithson, Partially Buried Woodshed. 1970 (as it was then)
Robert Smithson, Partially Buried Woodshed. 1970 with “May 4 Kent ’70” scrawl
John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14-year-old runaway, kneeling in anguish over the body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after he was shot by the Ohio National Guard on Kent State campus.May 4, 1970
Robert Smithson, Partially Buried Woodshed. 1970 almost completely buried