The traditional landscape genre was radica[ty transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merel.y representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment Reflecting the counter-cuttural, impulses of that decade, artists rejected the gallery as a frame and the art world as an economic system.They were drawn instead to entropic, post-industrial. wastelands or to the vast uncultivated spaces of desert or mountain terrain. Expanding the field of sculpture, environmental, art has also encompassed performance, conceptual, art and the study of natural, ecosystems. Illustrated with breathtaking photographs, this book fully documents the genesis of Land Art and its legacies, inctuding contemporary environmental, art.
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