•Inextricable link between Landscape and the Artwork
•Emerged in late 60’s early70’s in USA, backlash to commercialisation of art and industrialisation of the land.
•An act of protest, Inspired by natural processes and the environment
•Often Ethemeral and concerned with time
Re-creating the natural surrounding is not something new....
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown 1716 - 1783
Brown was known for making the natural garden look even more natural than it already was!
His designs and landscapping allowed views of his work to be experienced from all vantage points.
Crop Circles.
These appear mysteriously overnight in very strange circumstances.
Crop circles have been used as a way to make political statements.
The earliest recorded image resembling a crop circle is depicted in a 17th century Englishwoodcut called the The Mowing Devil. The image depicts the Devil with a scythe mowing a circular design in a field of oats. The pamphlet containing the image states that the farmer, disgusted at the wage his mower was demanding for his work, insisted that he would rather have "the devil himself" perform the task.
People have come forward claiming to have been the creators.
http://www.circlemakers.org/
http://www.nextnature.net/?p=1283
Greenpeace campaigning against geneticly grown crops.
Ancient Earthworks.
Stonehenge, Wiltshire UK
Madien Castle, an iron age fort in Dorset UK
The Cerne Giant & the Westbury Horse have anceint roots but there is evidence that they have been re-made in more recent times.
Nazca Lines in Peru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_lines">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_lines
Richard Long 1972
http://www.flaviaormond.com/long.html
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty 1970
Walter De Maria
Lightning Feild 1977
Michael Hiezer
Displaced Replaced Mass
1969
Christo
Wrapped Coast
1968 - 69
Nancy Holt
Sun Tunnels 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CYMox9kVo
James Turrell
Roden Crater 1980
James Turrell
Irish Garden Sky 1991
http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/310
What future developments?
GPS Drawings 'Dog Art'
http://borderwars.blogspot.com/2007/12/gps-dog-art.html
Orag Whiteman
http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/85
Art in the Age of Orbitization
http://www.orbit.zkm.de/
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