The artists of Land Art sought expressive means going beyond the limitations of traditional painting on canvas, It was no longer the painted picture of a landscape,but rather the landscape itself or the landscape marked off by the artist that became the actual art object...The studio-gallery-collector triangle, within which art had previously been played out,was disrupted.

In the mid-1960s, artists from the US and Europe began to plan works for locations beyond the narrow boundaries of galleries and museums.The title of a film by Gerry Schum became a brand label for artistic works in the landscape. The name Land Art arose as an abbreviation of "landscape art". It began with ephemeral enhancements or traces left in deserted landscapes, in the deserts of America, or in the moors of Scotland. Following this were spectacular earthen sculptures of gigantic proportions, some of which are still in the process of completion today.One distinguishing feature of Land Art is its critical preoccupation with the tradition of sculpture. Sculpture can now be an earthwork excavation,a field of metal poles, a buried hut, a trace in the grass, or even a book. Another of the movement's special characteristics is its emphasis on site-specific, outdoor works intended to alter lastingly our perception of places, and to set new parameters in art production and reception.

Beyond the white cube

CARL ANDRE -- Log Piece, Aspen 1968

ALICE AYCOCK -- Project for a Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels

HERBERT BAYER -- Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks

CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE -- Wrapped Coast

CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE -- Valley Curtain

WALTER DE MARIA -- The New York Earth Room

WALTER DE MARIA -- The Lightning Field

AGNES DENES -- Wheatfield - A Confrontation

JAN DIBBETS n Land/Sea

HAMISH FULTON -- The Pilgrims' Way 1971

HAMISH FULTON -- A 21 Day Coast to Coast Walking Journey ... Japan 1996

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY -- Thin ice / made over two days / welded with water from dripping ice /

hollow inside

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY -- Storm King Wall

MICHAEL HEIZER -- Displaced/Replaced Mass

MICHAEL HEIZER -- Double Negative

MICHAEL HEIZER -- Effigy Tumuli

NANCY HOLT -- Sun Tunnels

NANCY HOLT -- Hydra's Head

PET E R H U TC H I N S O N -- Flower Triangle/Underwater Dam/Threaded Calabash

PETER HUTCHINSON -- Paricutin Volcano Project

PATRICIA JOHANSON -- Cyrus Field

DANI KARAVAN -- Passages - Homage to Walter Benjamin

RICHARD LONG -- A Line Made By Walking England 1967

RICHARD LONG -- A Line in the Himalayas 1975

RICHARD LONG -- A Line of 682 Stones

MARY MISS -- Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys

ROBERT MORRIS -- Observatory

DENNIS OPPENHEIM -- Circle X Branded Mountain/Anthrax/Diphtheria

DENNIS OPPENHEIM -- Whirlpool - Eye of the Storm

CHARLES ROSS -- Star Axis

ROBERT SMITHSON -- Nonsite, Oberhausen, Germany

ROBERT SMITHSON -- Spiral Jetty

ROBERT SMITHSON -- Broken Circle/Spiral Hill

ALAN SONFIST -- Time LandscapeTM

JAMES TURRELL -- Roden Crater