Groundswell: Women of Land Art recasts the history of the Land art movement by placing twelve women sculptors — among them Agnes Denes, Nancy Holt, and Ana Mendieta — at its centre, where they have always belonged.
About This Book
The canonical story of Land art has been told largely through male practitioners, but the women working in parallel — using earth, salt, mirrors, water, fire, and even explosives — were no less radical in their ambitions. Groundswell: Women of Land Art corrects this imbalance with scholarly rigour and visual depth, drawing together five academic essays, a detailed chronology, an exhibition checklist, and illustrated biographies of twelve artists whose earthworks pushed well beyond the white cube. For readers invested in feminist art history, site-specific practice, and the enduring relationship between art and landscape, this is an essential reassessment of who shaped the Land art movement and how.
Key Features
- 256 pages of scholarly essays, artist biographies, chronology, and exhibition checklist with full illustration
- Edited by Leigh Arnold; authors include Scout Hutchinson, Jana La Brasca, Anna Lovatt, and Jenni Sorkin
- Features twelve artists: Lita Albuquerque, Alice Aycock, Beverly Buchanan, Agnes Denes, Maren Hassinger, Nancy Holt, Patricia Johanson, Ana Mendieta, Mary Miss, Jody Pinto, Michelle Stuart, and Meg Webster
- Published by Distributed Art Publishers, ISBN: 9781636811109
What You'll Discover
- How women artists of the 1960s moved beyond the gallery to work directly with landscape, using natural and industrial materials at monumental scale
- The connections between Land art and the concurrent movements of Minimalism and Conceptual art, and how these women navigated and complicated those lineages
- The institutional forces — museum presentations, critical discourse — that marginalised these artists relative to their male counterparts, and what correcting that record looks like in practice
- A detailed chronological and biographical framework that makes this book a working research resource, not merely a survey
About the Author
This volume is edited by Leigh Arnold and features essays by Scout Hutchinson, Jana La Brasca, Anna Lovatt, and Jenni Sorkin. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 256
- Dimensions: 27.9 x 24.1 x 3.18 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781636811109
- Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Art historians, curators, and researchers working in feminist art history, site-specific and Land art practice, and anyone building a serious library of twentieth-century American art.