Landscape Into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s

255 Pages·2018·172.48 MB·English

by  Mark A Cheetham

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Landscape into eco art
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The Pennsylvania sTaTe UniversiTy Press UniversiTy Park, Pennsylvania
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Landscape into eco art
articulations of nature since the ’60s
Mark A. Cheetham
The Pennsylvania sTaTe UniversiTy Press UniversiTy Park, Pennsylvania
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Publication of this book has been aided by a Copyright © 2018 Mark A. Cheetham
grant from the Millard Meiss Publication Fund All rights reserved
of the College Art Assocation. Printed in Canada
Published by The Pennsylvania State
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University Press,
Library of Congress Cataloging-in- University Park, PA 16802–1003
Publication Data
Names: Cheetham, Mark A. (Mark Arthur), The Pennsylvania State University Press is a
1954– author. member of the Association of American
Title: Landscape into eco art : articulations of University Presses.
nature since the ’60s / Mark A. Cheetham.
Description: University Park, Pennsylvania : It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State
The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Press to use acid-free paper.
[2018] | Includes bibliographical references Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the
and index. minimum requirements of American National
Summary: “Explores the practices of ecological Standard for Information Sciences—Perma-
art, a genre addressing the widespread public nence of Paper for Printed Library Material,
concern with rapid climate change and related ANSI Z39.48–1992.
environmental issues. Examines connections
and divergences between contemporary eco Frontispiece: Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1976
art, land art of the 1960s and ’70s, and the (detail). Great Basin Desert, Utah. Photo: Nancy
historical genre of landscape painting”— Holt. Courtesy of the Holt-Smithson Founda-
Provided by publisher.     tion. © 2016 Estate of Nancy Holt / SODRAC,
Identifiers: LCCN 2017041163 | ISBN Montreal / VAGA, New York.
9780271080031 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Ecology in art. | Earthworks
(Art) | Landscape painting.
Classification: LCC N8217.E28 C49 2018 | DDC
700/.46—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov
/2017041163
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For Elizabeth, Anthea, and Nicholas
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contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
chapter one Manipulated Landscapes 1
chapter two Beyond suspicion:
Why (not) Landscape? 49
chapter three remote control:
siting Land art and eco art 90
chapter four contracted Fields:
“nature” in the art Museum 121
chapter five Bordering the Ubiquitous:
the art of Local and Global ecologies 157
Notes 209
Bibliography 221
Index 235
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iLLUstrations
1 Olafur Eliasson, The weather project, 2003 2
2 Roni Horn, Water, Selected, from Vatnasafn / Library of Water, 2007 3
3 Hans Haacke, Rhine Water Purification Plant, 1972 14
4 Robert Smithson, Upside Down Tree i, 1969 29
5 Joseph Beuys, 7000 Oaks, 1982–87 32
6 Mark Dion, Neukom Vivarium, 2007 33
7 Roy Arden, Pulp Mill Dump (#1) Nanaimo, B.C., 1992 35
8 Robert Smithson, Glue Pour, December 1969 35
9 Sam Durant, Upside Down Pastoral Scene, 2002 (detail) 36
10 Rodney Graham, Millennial Time Machine: A Landau Carriage Converted to a
Mobile Camera Obscura, 2003 39
11 Reinhard Reitzenstein, Transformer, 2000 41
12 Tom Ackers and Melanie Gilligan, Deep Time, 2013 (video still) 42
13 Peter Fischli and David Weiss, The Right Way, 1983 (video still) 43
14 Pierre Huyghe, Untilled: Alive Entities and Inanimate Things, Made and Not
Made, 2011–12 (detail) 46
15 Mark Dion, The Schildbach Xylotheque, 2011–12 56
16 Tacita Dean, Fatigues, 2012 (detail) 57
17 Rúrí, Archive: Endangered Waters, 2003 61
18 Diane Burko, Jakobshavn-Ilulissat Quartet, 2015 68
19 Mariele Neudecker, Over and Over, Again and Again, 2004 (detail) 69
20 Mariele Neudecker, There Is Always Something More Important, 2012 71
21 Kent Monkman, Trappers of Men, 2006 74
22 Kent Monkman, The Fourth World, 2012 78
23 Albert Bierstadt, Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall, 1864 79
24 Kent Monkman, The Rise and Fall of Civilization, 2015 80
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