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Land Art
Immediate Artistic Precedents:
Immediate Social-Political Contexts
(1960s-1970s):
- Vietnam-war era protests against "military-industrial
complex"
- Counter-culture
- Environmentalism
The "land art," "environmental
art," or "earthworks" movement:
- Mini-gallery
- Minimalist or Conceptual
- Protest against the art establishment and the socio-economic
Establishment
- But "materialized" rather than "dematerialized"
in "site-specific" and "site-conditioned"
installations
- Tensions in Land Art:
- Environment-damaging vs. environmentally sensitive
- Male vs. female
- American vs. British (and European)
- Material vs. conceptual
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