Description
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging exploration of human interactions with the land over thousands of years, as well as a model for teaching art and design in the field.
Trade Review"Land Arts of the American West is notable for presenting an unusually wide array of artistic exploration and intervention in the Western landscape, and for having a remarkably large frame of historical reference... Given the range of sites presented and the depth of analysis that many of them receive, I can imagine that this book would have broad appeal not only to people interested in art, but also to those intrigued by landscape, land use, and Western history." J o h n B e a r d s l e y, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, author of Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Practicing Land Arts: Learning to Learn
- Muley Point
- Double Negative
- Great Basin Geomorphology
- Land Mark Making by William L. Fox
- Lake Mead
- Practicing Land Arts: Field Trials
- Bosque del Apache
- El Vado Lake
- A Native American Sense of Place: Tending the Roots of Culture; An Interview with Mary Lewis Garcia
- Spiral Jetty
- The Problem of Return by Ann Reynolds
- Practicing Land Arts: On Site, Part One
- Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
- Chaco Canyon
- Chaco Canyon and the Interactions of Nature, Culture, Art, and History by J. J. Brody
- Roden Crater
- Wupatki
- CLUI-Wendover
- Out There with the Center for Land Use Interpretation: An Interview with Matthew Coolidge
- Very Large Array
- Deming
- Practicing Land Arts: On Site, Part Two
- Colorado Plateau Geomorphology
- Tipover Canyon
- The Lightning Field
- Turkey Springs
- Chihuahuan Desert Geomorphology
- Marfa
- Boquillas Canyon
- Juan Mata Ortiz
- Ollas, vacas, y ferocarriles: Una conversación en el vado; Una entrevista con Héctor Gallegos y Graciela Martínez de Gallegos
- Pots, Cows, and Trains: A Conversation at the Crossing; An Interview with Héctor Gallegos and Graciela Martínez de Gallegos
- Cebolla Canyon
- Practicing Land Arts: Parallel Practices
- Anaya Spring
- Peripheral Vision by Lucy R. Lippard
- Apache Creek
- San Rafael Swell
- Sun Tunnels
- Otero Mesa
- Blue Notch
- Practicing Land Arts: Future Directions
- All insets by Amanda Douberley
- Land Arts of the American West: Program History
- Land Arts of the American West: Bibliography
- Photo Credits
- Index
