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536.01   Land art
536.02   Andy Goldsworthy: Books
536.03   Richard Long: On-site sculptures
536.04   Robert Smithson: On-site sculptures
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536.01   Art >  Land art 
  
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Land art or Environmental art is a direct artistic response to natural surroundings. Artists create temporary sculptures using natural materials, such as mud, rocks, leaves, ice and twigs. These can be small in scale such as Andy Goldworthy's use of leaves to outline a branch or as large as a semi-permanent "spiral jetty" made using rock in the Great Salt Lake Utah by Robert Smithson. Photography is a means of documenting the project and it is the text, drawings and photographs that become the historical record of the original artwork and they are integral to it. 
  
536.02   Art >  Andy Goldsworthy: Books 
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To gain an alternative perspective on the natural world examine the books of the Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy who uses leaves, petals, stones and ice to construct transient creations of outstanding beauty and he preserves these short-lived masterpieces photographically. 
  
536.03   Art >  Richard Long: On-site sculptures 
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536.04   Art >  Robert Smithson: On-site sculptures 
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Readings on, or by, individual photographers 
  
Andy Goldsworthy 
  
Goldsworthy, Andy, 1990, A Collaboration with Nature, (Abrams) [Δ
  
Goldsworthy, Andy, 1996, Wood, (Harry N. Abrams) [Δ
  
Goldsworthy, Andy, 2004, Hand to Earth, (Harry N. Abrams) [Δ
  
Goldsworthy, Andy, 2011, Stone, (Thames & Hudson) [Δ
  
Richard Long 
  
Long, Richard, 1998, Mirage, (Phaidon) isbn-10: 0714837792 [Δ
  
Roelstraete, Dieter, 2010, Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking, (London: Afterall Books) [Δ
  
Robert Smithson 
  
Bargellesi-Severi, Guglielmo, 1997, Robert Smithson: Slideworks, (Italy: Carlo Frua) [Δ
  
Cooke, Lynne (ed.) & Kell, Karen (ed.), 2005, Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, (University of California Press) isbn-13: 978-0520245549 [Δ
  
Tsai, Eugenie (ed.), 2004, Robert Smithson, (University of California Press) isbn-13: 978-0520244085 [Δ
  
 
  
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com 
  

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Keith Arnatt  (1930-) • John Baldessari  (1931-) • Christo & Jeanne-Claude • Jan Dibbets  (1941-) • Andy Goldsworthy  (1956-) • Richard Long  (1945-) • Edward Ruscha  (1937-) • Robert Smithson
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