Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Land art sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Land art (late 1960s – Present), it traces two movements that shaped it, all well-established links: Conceptual art and Minimalism; it runs alongside five parallel movements, a mix of well-established and looser, indirect links: Arte Povera, Ecological Art, Environmental art, Postminimalism and Temporary art; it fans out to one movement it went on to influence, a well-established link: Site-specific art.
Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, largely associated with Great Britain and the United States but that also includes examples from many other countries. As a trend, "land art" expanded the boundaries of traditional art making in the materials used and the siting of the works. The materials used are often the materials of the Earth, including the soil, rocks, vegetation, and water found on-site, and the sites are often distant from population centers. Though sometimes fairly inaccessible, photo documentation is commonly brought back to the urban art gallery. Read more ↗
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