Land Art, Earth Art And Environmentalism

Question 1

Robert smithson, spiral jetty

Answer 1

1970
Great salt lake in Utah
Pink water

Question 2

Walter de Maria, the Lightning Field

Answer 2

1977

Rods illuminated by lightning

Question 3

Carl Andre, joint

Answer 3

1968
50 dollar budget 
Lays hall bales out in a row
Work wants to orientate you towards the landscape
'Sculpture-as-place'

Question 4

Mary miss, battery park

Answer 4

1973
Marking sights, S Manhattan
About alignment, focus, trajectory, line of sight

Question 5

Nancy holt, sun tunnels

Answer 5

1976
Vast distances
Created intimate/ formal space
Orientated towards astrology

Question 6

Earth art

Answer 6

Invented by Willoughby Sharp

Late 60s/early 70s

Question 7

Hans Haacke, grass pile

Answer 7

1968

Literally earth in a gallery

Question 8

Richard Long, England

Answer 8

1968
Minute interventions
Picks all the daisies
Sensitive to the landscape

Question 9

Smithson, eight-part-piece

Answer 9

1969
Gravel and glass from a local quarry, then placed into the gallery
‘Non-site’ object only partially present, wants you to think of an elsewhere
Not all in the gallery or all in nature

Question 10

Land art

Answer 10

Developed during late 60s
1969 = the year environmentalism became a galvanising force
Not called land art at the time, called earth art
Relationship to environmental concerns, ecosystem
1969 cuyahoga river caught on fire because of oil
Invention of Earth Day

Question 11

Michael Heizer, Bern Depression, A wrecking ball hitting the pavement outside the Kunsthalle 15 times,
Bern

Answer 11

1969