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Bord à bord : Art écologique & art environmental

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Les Carnets du paysage présentent un dossier autour de la question de l’art écologique, plus précisément de la manière dont certains artistes contemporains en Amérique du Nord ont développé leur travail autour et à partir de la question de la nature et de sa préservation. Les artistes dont on présente le travail dans ce numéro travaillent avec des matériaux naturels, comme la terre, les roches, le bois, l’eau. Disposant parfois de vastes espaces, ils essaient d’en explorer les possibilités en prenant la terre elle-même comme élément et comme surface d’inscription. Ce numéro rassemble des analyses et des textes d’artistes, d’intellectuels et d’écrivains qui ont en commun de réfléchir à et d’agir sur ce que nous pouvons appeler notre environnement, notre œkoumène, bref la Terre, que nous ne savons peut-être plus vraiment habiter. Tout n’est pas paysage, mais le paysage est concerné par des questions qui touchent à la nature, à l’espace, à la représentation, à l’écologie, aux usages des éléments et des matières, à la poétique des formes. C’est cette dimension de l’identité du paysage que les Carnets tentent d’explorer dans ce numéro.

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Robert Smithson : learning from New Jersey and elsewhere

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Robert Smithson (1938–1973) produced his best-known work during the 1960s and early 1970s, a period in which the boundaries of the art world and the objectives of art-making were questioned perhaps more consistently and thoroughly than any time before or since. In "Robert Smithson", Ann Reynolds elucidates the complexity of Smithson’s work and thought by placing them in their historical context, a context greatly enhanced by the vast archival materials that Smithson’s widow, Nancy Holt, donated to the Archives of American Art in 1987. The archive provides Reynolds with the remnants of Smithson’s working life--magazines, postcards from other artists, notebooks, and perhaps most important, his library--from which she reconstructs the physical and conceptual world that Smithson inhabited. Reynolds explores the relation of Smithson’s art-making, thinking about art-making, writing, and interaction with other artists to the articulated ideology and discreet assumptions that determined the parameters of artistic practice of the time. A central focus of Reynolds’s analysis is Smithson’s fascination with the blind spots at the center of established ways of seeing and thinking about culture. For Smithson, New Jersey was such a blind spot, and he returned there again and again, alone and with fellow artists, to make art that, through its location alone, undermined assumptions about what and, more important, where, art should be. For those who guarded the integrity of the established art world, New Jersey was "elsewhere"; but for Smithson, "elsewheres" were the defining, if often forgotten, locations on the map of contemporary culture.

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Overlook : exploring the internal fringes of America with the Center for land use interpretation

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The Center for land use interpretation is a research-based educational organization that produces public programs about the built landscape of the United States from its sites in Los Angeles, Utah and the Mojave desert, with an upstate New York location opening in 2006. The Center’s aim is to increase and diffuse information about how the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized and perceived. Recent examples of their work include a two-day "Tour of the monuments of the great American void" by bus and the exhibit "Immersed remains: towns submerged in America". This book takes readers on a tour through the strangely unfamiliar land that Americans live in, demonstrating that we can understand ourselves by examining the clues on display all around us, often clearly visible but ignored. Each chapter explores a different topic, from an in-depth look at Ohio ("the most all-American state"); through scale shifts in model landscapes, exemplified in the three largest hydraulic models in the world; and law-enforcement training environments that "simulate" public space. Readers can dive into the hidden and enchanting world of show caves, where America is on display underground; and come up into the Great Basin, a zone covering most of Nevada, and portions of Utah, California, Oregon, Idaho and Mexico, whose network of watersheds has no outlet to the ocean. Following lines and edges, through cities, suburbs, small towns and wide-open spaces, the Center guides us upstream, toward the heart of another America - the same, but different.

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Natural magic: The art of Partick Dougherty

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Chapel Hill-based Patrick Dougherty is known for his enchanting, site-specific sculptural installations composed of huge, hanging, nestlike forms. This volume documents several exhibitions, highlighting the collaborative process of creating major installations, and the eventual, natural demise of Dougherty's unique sculptures.

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Richard Long: selected statements & interviews

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This book gathers together a selection of Long's statements and interviews from 1971 through 2006. Published alongside black-and-white reproductions of his works, many of the texts have been unavailable for years. Also included are an early interview from 1971, published for the first time in English, and a previously unpublished conversation with Michael Auping, Chief Curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. These seminal texts are invaluable for an understanding of the rich and complex implications of Long's work.

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The Spiral Jetty encyclo: exploring Robert Smithson's earthwork through time and space

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"The Spiral Jetty Encyclo" draws on Smithson’s writings for encyclopedic entries that bring to light the context of the earthwork and Smithson’s many points of reference in creating it. Visitors and armchair travelers, too, will discover how much significance Smithson placed on regional considerations, his immersion in natural history, his passion for travel, and his ability to use diverse mediums to create a cohesive and lasting work of art. Containing some 220 images, most of them in color, with some historical black and whites, "The Spiral Jetty Encyclo" lets readers explore the construction, connections, and significance of Smithson’s 1,500-foot-long curl into Great Salt Lake, created, in Smithson’s words, of “mud, salt crystals, rocks, water.”

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Land art travelling

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Publié une première fois en 1996 de façon très confidentielle, "Land art travelling" est composé d'extraits des carnets que l'auteur a tenus lors de ses pérégrinations aux Etats-Unis et en Europe, en 1991 et 1994, à la rencontre des chefs-d'oeuvre de Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, James Turrell, Nancy Holt, Charles Ross ou Walter De Maria, sur les sites difficilement accessibles où ces artistes les ont implantés au cours des années 1970.

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Robert Smithson : mémoire et entropie

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Une synthèse des multiples dimensions de l'œuvre protéiforme d'un artiste légendaire – convoquant la mémoire et l'entropie, l'utopie, la nature, la géologie, la littérature, la poésie, le minimalisme, la dématérialisation, le processus de fragmentation, la science-fiction, etc. –, dont nous mesurons aujourd'hui à quel point elles trouvent un écho dans les questions contemporaines environnementales, cinématographiques, esthétiques et sociales.

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Not a cornfield: history / site / document

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The Not A Cornfield project is a transformation of a 32 acre industrial brownfield in the historic center of Los Angeles into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. This temporary project is located just North of Chinatown and South of Lincoln Heights on a large stretch of land well known as "The Cornfield."

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Earthwards. Robert Smithson and art after Babel

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The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogation of authorship, the linear historiography of high modernism, and the limitations of the museum prefigures key themes in postmodern criticism while underscoring the uniqueness of Smithson's own work as an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Gary Shapiro's elegant and incisive study of Smithson's career is the first book to address the full range of the artist's dazzling virtuosity. Ranging from Smithson's best known works such as Spiral Jetty and Partially Buried Woodshed to his photographs, films, and theoretical readings and writings, Shapiro's masterful book analyzes Smithson's art in relation to the legacy of American art of the 1960s and central philosophical themes in its contemporary reception.