Sentences with phrase «earth artist»

It appeared to me that we needed an important work by pioneering earth artist Robert Smithson.
Like the airships Hunt has made since (they are now invisibly affixed to the wall high above eye level), the Hindenburg appears to float weightlessly in a volume of horizontal air, referring not only to spacecraft but to ideas of vast space and scale being addressed at the time by such earth artists as Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer.
Rethinking the landscape in contemporary art started with Earth artists in the 1960s and»70s.
He collaborated with many of the early earth artists, even appearing in Robert Smithson's film about Spiral Jetty, perhaps the most widely recognized example of earth art.
Bronze square dude Carl Andre, earth artist Robert Smithson, Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, steel beam sculptor Mark di Suvero, feminist crotch - scroller Carolee Schneeman, light artist Dan Flavin, square stacker Donald Judd, Cor - ten sheet sculptor Richard Serra, Ab Exer Willem de Kooning - the place was literally a walking and talking art history book, in real life.
Today, this down - to - earth artist, wife, and mother of two offers readers a peek into her life and career, with a dash of humor to boot.
The jazz innovator Cecil Taylor; the painter and musician Lucy Dodd; the filmmaker Steve McQueen; the earth artist Michael Heizer; and the skilled manipulator of human consciousness Andrea Fraser all outdid themselves, teaching us about life, space and the exhibition as form.
Though he was speaking specifically in the context of Happenings, his quote could easily describe the nature of art produced by many of the earth artists, minimalists, installation, and performance artists of later decades.
(Consider, for example, the Gagosian Gallery's exhibition of huge aluminum sculptures by the earth artist Michael Heizer, whose art is more at home on the range.)
Richard Long is usually called an «earth artist» or a «land artist», but neither description helps when confronted by one of his spare geological installations.
Like certain young American «anti-form» and earth artists of the time - Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson - and such British and German artists as Richard Long and Joseph Beuys, these young Italians began to create art that favored process...
After Dodd, the earth artist Michael Heizer will show his 1970 installation Actual Size: Munich Rotary — full - scale documentation of the horizon as photographed from within an 18 - foot hole that Heizer dug in Munich, Germany (from March 25 until April 10, 2016).
Mendieta's diverse approach often brings to question the artist's practice and style: was she an earth artist, a conceptual artist, a performance artist, a filmmaker, a photographer, or a sculptor?
Dennis Oppenheim was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer.
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 — January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer
Plans for an exhibition by another Jersey artist, proto - Earth artist Robert Smithson (of «Spiral Jetty» fame) were scratched by the gallery's immediate financial collapse.
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