Environmental art; Islands; Trees; Bays (Bodies of water); Bodies of water; Water; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views
"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...
Environmental art; Islands; Trees; Bays (Bodies of water); Bodies of water; Water; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views
"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...
Caption information: Bleistift, Emaillefarbe [Pencil, color enamel] / sig. u. dat.: o. r. Christo 1969-70 [Signed and dated: upper right: Christo 1969-70] / Besitz des Kunstlers [Property (possession) of the artists].
Caption information: Bleistift, Buntstift, Landkarte [Pencil, colored pencil, land art] / sig. u. dat.: Christo 1970 [Signed and dated: Christo 1970] / Beisitz des Kunstlers [Property (possession) of the artists].
Sculpture; Jetties; Industrialization; Industry; Petroleum industry; Land use; Ecology; Nature; Bodies of water; Lakes & ponds; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views; Film stills; Motion pictures; Maps; Dirt roads; Roads; Streets; Books
Documentation of film stills from Spiral Jetty, 1970. "These are frames from Smithson's half-hour-long film based on his Spiral Jetty. Shots taken of the dusty road on the way to the site of the work were intercut with images of the blazing...
"Rachel Whiteread's House revived a taste for outrage previously brought to the fore in Britain by the Tate Bricks saga. Before its completion in October 1993 it had attracted little press interest. In November of that year, however, a...
"One of the ironies of the anti-market strategies of certain Land Artists was that to view their works other than via photographs spectators had to travel large distances. This could be costly, especially when specialized transport was...
