Land Art : 9781861712325 : 01 Feb 2008 : LAND ART A fully illustrated guide to land and environmental art. For the land artist, the whole planet is an artist's studio. The land artist ranges over the whole globe. A desert, a beach, a field, a forest becomes a studio, a place of creative activity. This means the very texture and colour and shape and dampness and springiness and strength and size of moss, for instance. Or a stone. Or a crevice in a rock formation. The way the light falls on a patch of grass, the little bits of dead, yellowish grass on top of the newer, green grass. Pine cones, closed-up. Flowers turning sunward in the late afternoon. These are the things land artists deal with in making art. These are the actualities that artists employ when they create artworks. This new book explores all of the major land, environmental and earthwork artists of the past 40 years, including James Turrell and his vast volcano site . Hans Haacke's Conceptual art . Michael Heizer's Mi