The celebrated artist’s massive ‘mythical’ work covers three-quarters of a square mile of high and inaccessible land
by the project and Heizer’s embrace of the landscape. Reid helped to stall proposals for a railway line to carry nuclear waste to a proposed storage facility under the nearby Yucca Mountain.sits within the 704,000-acre Basin and Range National Monument, which also contains sacred and cultural Native American sites dating back 13,000 years.
“I often think when I see one of these art products, ‘wow, what a piece of work that is.’ It doesn’t matter if I like it or not, I’m overwhelmed by the intensity of the artist’s ambition.” For some of the land artists, the material was the land itself, hence the term “Earth Art”, and they proclaimed to remake art from scratch. In turn, they influenced a generation of artists, including – in Britain –and Andy Goldsworthy, who followed in making sculpture that was part of the fabric of the land, but often made their own projects more mutable with the natural world.
The land art movement came into being at a time when the ecology movement in the US was taking shape. By creating work that could not be exchanged and required engaging with elements of the environment, land artists called on the viewer to challenge their perceptions of art.sculpture will be limited to six a day, and Heizer has expressed concern that too many could damage the work.
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