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Le land art et après : l'émergence d'oeuvres géoplastiques

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"Tout artiste qui travaille dans la nature n'est pas un land-artist et ne s'intéresse pas nécessairement au paysage" (G. Tiberghien). Après le Land Art des années soixante, de nombreuses pratiques plastiques - nées de recherche en relation avec la nature - voient le jour : ce sont des oeuvres géoplastiques. L'hétérogénéité de ces oeuvres et expérimentations est immense. Ce livre donne des repères pour les identifier et propose des exemples aussi variés que possible pour tenter de mesurer l'étendue de leur diversité.

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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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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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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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Destination art

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This is the first critical guide to the two hundred most important modern and contemporary art sites around the world. Designed for the international art tourist as a critical reference, "Destination Art" provides an accessible chronological survey of important large-scale and public works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. Encompassing land and environmental works, sculpture parks, architectural follies, site-specific installations, and entire towns turned over to the display of art, this book chronicles works that have achieved near-mythical status since they were created. Among the artists included are Henri Matisse, Antoni Gaudí, Jean Tinguely, Constantin Brancusi, James Turrell, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, and Antony Gormley. The book provides visitor information, including hours and admission fees, directions, contact details and websites, and further reading. Fifty art destinations are featured in substantial essays, with accounts of their histories and descriptions of their sites.

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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.