Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Practicing Land Arts: Learning to Learn
- Muley Point
- Double Negative
- Great Basin Geomorphology
- Land Mark Making by William L. Fox
- Lake Mead
- Practicing Land Arts: Field Trials
- Bosque del Apache
- El Vado Lake
- A Native American Sense of Place: Tending the Roots of Culture;
An Interview with Mary Lewis Garcia
- Spiral Jetty
- The Problem of Return by Ann Reynolds
- Practicing Land Arts: On Site, Part One
- Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
- Chaco Canyon
- Chaco Canyon and the Interactions of Nature, Culture, Art, and
History by J. J. Brody
- Roden Crater
- Wupatki
- CLUI-Wendover
- Out There with the Center for Land Use Interpretation: An
Interview with Matthew Coolidge
- Very Large Array
- Deming
- Practicing Land Arts: On Site, Part Two
- Colorado Plateau Geomorphology
- Tipover Canyon
- The Lightning Field
- Turkey Springs
- Chihuahuan Desert Geomorphology
- Marfa
- Boquillas Canyon
- Juan Mata Ortiz
- Ollas, vacas, y ferocarriles: Una conversación en el vado; Una
entrevista con Héctor Gallegos y Graciela Martínez de Gallegos
- Pots, Cows, and Trains: A Conversation at the Crossing; An
Interview with Héctor Gallegos and Graciela Martínez de
Gallegos
- Cebolla Canyon
- Practicing Land Arts: Parallel Practices
- Anaya Spring
- Peripheral Vision by Lucy R. Lippard
- Apache Creek
- San Rafael Swell
- Sun Tunnels
- Otero Mesa
- Blue Notch
- Practicing Land Arts: Future Directions
- All insets by Amanda Douberley
- Land Arts of the American West: Program History
- Land Arts of the American West: Bibliography
- Photo Credits
- Index
Promotional Information
A wide-ranging exploration of human interactions with the land over
thousands of years, as well as a model for teaching art and design
in the field.
About the Author
Chris Taylor is a Harvard-trained architect who teaches
architecture at Texas Tech University. In conjunction with the
Architecture Workers Combine, he explores the direct and
interstitial forces creating landscape with built work in New
Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
Bill Gilbert holds the Lannan Chair in Land Arts of the American
West in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of
New Mexico. His art practice explores the dialogue between
environment and cultures in the Southwest. He has exhibited his
work in the United States, Ecuador, the Czech Republic, Canada, and
Japan.
Reviews
"Land Arts of the American West is notable for presenting an
unusually wide array of artistic exploration and intervention in
the Western landscape, and for having a remarkably large frame of
historical reference... Given the range of sites presented and the
depth of analysis that many of them receive, I can imagine that
this book would have broad appeal not only to people interested in
art, but also to those intrigued by landscape, land use, and
Western history." J o h n B e a r d s l e y, Harvard University
Graduate School of Design, author of Earthworks and Beyond:
Contemporary Art in the Landscape
