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The Last Freedom
From the Pioneers of Land Art in the 1960s to Nature in Cyberspace
Edited by Beate Reifenscheid.Text by Robert Morgan, Serge Paul, Gilles Tiberghien.
The Last Freedom considers the development of Land Art from the 1960s to the present, charting its earliest expressions among those New York artists who made the genre's earliest masterpieces in the wide-open expanses of the west to recent manifestations with young artists manipulating the artificial world of cyberspace. Exploring historical positions and material approaches with the aid of sketches, artifacts, documents, models, photographs and film, and focusing mainly on achievements in America and Europe, the publication includes work by seminal as well as emerging figures operating in the extended field: Adam Berg, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Agnes Denes, Florian Dombois, Walter de Maria, Toshikatsu Endo, Jan Dibbets, Hamish Fulton, Andy Goldsworthy, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Peter Hutchinson, Richard Long, Glenn Marshall, Robert Morris, David Nash, Dennis Oppenheim, Jaume Plensa, Charles Ross, Robert Smithson and James Turrell.
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FROM THE BOOK
"The experiences opened by these projects to the people on site are immense; they exceed what is humanly conceivable and lead to expansions (of consciousness) that cannot be explained by simply viewing them. They touch the inconceivable, go beyond the horizon, the spherical and, ultimately, the spiritual. It is precisely light that transports this magic of the unreal, that which cannot be recude to mere facts. The chosen landscapes may to some extent appear as 'non-locations,' but with the intervention of the artist they all developed a determinacy that was not previously visible and brought something to the happening that was present in terms of substance, but would have never before appeared visually or as an emotional or experimental force. It was the work, the artistic intervention--even if it was still too marginal or ephemeral--that first brought this quality to light."
Beate Reifenscheid, excerpted from the foreword to The Last Freedom.
FORMAT: Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $54 ISBN: 9788836620029 PUBLISHER: Silvana Editoriale AVAILABLE: 10/31/2011 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR ME
The Last Freedom From the Pioneers of Land Art in the 1960s to Nature in Cyberspace
Published by Silvana Editoriale. Edited by Beate Reifenscheid.Text by Robert Morgan, Serge Paul, Gilles Tiberghien.
The Last Freedom considers the development of Land Art from the 1960s to the present, charting its earliest expressions among those New York artists who made the genre's earliest masterpieces in the wide-open expanses of the west to recent manifestations with young artists manipulating the artificial world of cyberspace. Exploring historical positions and material approaches with the aid of sketches, artifacts, documents, models, photographs and film, and focusing mainly on achievements in America and Europe, the publication includes work by seminal as well as emerging figures operating in the extended field: Adam Berg, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Agnes Denes, Florian Dombois, Walter de Maria, Toshikatsu Endo, Jan Dibbets, Hamish Fulton, Andy Goldsworthy, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Peter Hutchinson, Richard Long, Glenn Marshall, Robert Morris, David Nash, Dennis Oppenheim, Jaume Plensa, Charles Ross, Robert Smithson and James Turrell.
