{"id":13932,"date":"2012-11-07T00:34:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T06:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=13932"},"modified":"2012-12-06T00:25:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T06:25:35","slug":"from-place-to-place-looking-at-land-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/from-place-to-place-looking-at-land-art\/","title":{"rendered":"From Place to Place: Thinking About Land Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/0blland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14056\" title=\"0blland\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/0blland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/0blland.jpg 640w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/0blland-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/0blland-500x296.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reviewing Geffen Contemporary\u2019s recent exhibition<em> Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Art in America<\/em> contributor Kristen Swenson writes, \u201cThe exhibition portrays Land art as a museum and a gallery-based phenomenon.\u201c Continuing, she boldly asserts, \u201cMost often, artists did not have the expectation that viewers would encounter their works in situ; rather the majority knew that documentation in film, video and photography, or through sketches and plans, would be the primary public expression of their practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>. . .But certainly the grand civic engineering sculptures, by Heizer, Holt, Smithson, Turrell and DeMaria, while perhaps the exception rather than the rule, are not just theoretical objects created with no expectation of encountering viewers. In fact, to disavow the actual land pieces as ephemeral, or to see Land Art as primarily, \u201ca gallery-based phenomenon,\u201d is a misstep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes\/12nov\/page1.html\" target=\"_blank\">In the November 2012 edition of 15 Bytes<\/a> Laura Hurtado explores the idea and reality of Land Art in Los Angeles, Lucin and Wendover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Hurtado explores the idea and reality of Land Art in Los Angeles, Lucin and Wendover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1106,1077,972],"class_list":["post-13932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15-bytes","tag-by-laura-hurtado","tag-land-art","tag-nancy-holt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/0blland.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-04 04:17:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13932"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14668,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932\/revisions\/14668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}