LAND ART IN THE U.S.A.

LAND ART IN THE U.S.A. A 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. This book explores all of the major American land, environmental and earthwork artists of the past 40 years, as well as European land artists working in North America. The book includes chapters on James Turrell and his vast volcano site • Michael Heizers Mid-West earthworks • Robert Smithson and his giant spiral, entropic earthworks • Robert Morriss environments and observatories • Walter de Marias Romantic Lightning Field and Earth Room • Dennis Oppenheims concentric snow circles • Alice Aycocks mysterious underground mazes • Mary Misss sunken pools and pavilions • Nancy Holt and her observation sculptures • and the enigmatic floor sculptures of Carl Andre. And Europeans such as