Publication accompanying the exhibition ‘Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974,’ presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from May to August 2012 and at the Haus der Kunst in Munich from October 2012 to January 2013. The show was organised by Phillip Kaiser and Miwon Kwon, and was the first large scale museum exhibition of Land art. It documents the history of Land art from its emergence during the early 1960s through 1974, bringing together works by more than 80 artists and projects from United Kingdom, Japan, the Philippines, Israel, Iceland, Eastern and Northern Europe, as well as North and South Americas. The catalogue includes colour and black-and-white reproductions of works, with essays by Tom Holert, Philipp Kaiser, Miwon Kwon, Julienne Lorz, Jane McFadden, Julian Myers and Emily Eliza Scott.

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Onsite

Location code
EX.USA.EEL
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2012

No of pages

263

ISBN / ISSN

9783791351940

No of copies

1

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

Ends of the Earth and Back - Philipp KAISER, Miwon KWON

Willoughby Sharp on the 'Earth Art' Exhibition at Cornell University, Ithica, New York 1969 - Willoughby SHARP

Not Sculpture: Along the Way to Land Art - Jane MCFADDEN

Interview with Seth Siegelaub (Conducted by Phillip Kaiser and Miwon Kwon)

Elsewhere: Desert Ends - Emily Eliza SCOTT

Virginia Dawn on Changing Boundaries - Virginia DAWN

Media: Land Art's Multiple Sites - Tom HOLERT

Interview with Germano Celant (Conducted by Phillip Kaiser and Miwon Kwon)

Urban Grounds: Earth beneath Detroit - Julian MYERS

Yona Fisher on Barriers and Connections - Yona FISHER

Transatlantic Crossings: The Case of Munich, 1968-1972 - Julienne LORZ

Laszlo Glozer on Pure Dirt, Pure Earth, Pure Land: A European Perspective on the Beginnings of Land Art - Laszlo GLOZER

Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974
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Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974