Art as Land/ Art as Memory: Reconsidering the Aims of Land Art

Anne Reed

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Nancy Holt, Sun TunnelsLocated in the Great Basin Desert outside of Lucin, Utah

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Exhibition design images for Nancy Holt: Sightlines Miriam and Ida D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

Nancy Holt, Sun TunnelsLocated in the Great Basin Desert outside of Lucin, Utah

Christine Oatman, Icicle Circle and Fire. 1973

Callanish Stones, Western Isles of Scotland. c. 3400 BCE

  Michael Heizer. Water Strider, of the Effigy Tumuli Sculptures1983-85 Buffalo Rock State Park, IL

Map of Michael Heizer's Effigy Tumuli at Buffalo Rock, IL

  Michael Heizer. Water Strider, of the Effigy Tumuli Sculptures1983-85 Buffalo Rock State Park, IL

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty. 1970northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah

Salt crystals on the Spiral Jetty

Spiral Jetty Aerial photograph

Nine Mile Canyon, Utah Petroglyphs, Spiral and Serpent Petroglyph

                                                                  

The chamber and passage at Newgrange

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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty. 1970northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah

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"I'm building this work for later. I'm interested in making a work of art that will represent all the civilization to this point." - Michael Heizer

Michael Heizer, City, Complex One

Robert Smithson, Partially Buried Woodshed. 1970 (as it was then)

Robert Smithson, Partially Buried Woodshed. 1970 with “May 4 Kent ’70” scrawl

John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14-year-old runaway, kneeling in anguish over the body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after he was shot by the Ohio National Guard on Kent State campus.May 4, 1970

Robert Smithson, Partially Buried Woodshed. 1970 almost completely buried