Landscape into Eco Art

Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the Millard Meiss Publication Fund of the College Art Assocation.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Cheetham, Mark A. (Mark Arthur), 1954– author.

Title: Landscape into eco art : articulations of nature since the ’60s / Mark A. Cheetham.

Description: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary: “Explores the practices of ecological art, a genre addressing the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. Examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and ’70s, and the historical genre of landscape painting”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017041163 | ISBN 9780271080031 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Ecology in art. | Earthworks (Art) | Landscape painting.

Classification: LCC N8217.E28 C49 2018 | DDC 700/.46—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017041163

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Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802–1003

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FRONTISPIECE: Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1976 (detail). Great Basin Desert, Utah. Photo: Nancy Holt. Courtesy of the Holt-Smithson Foundation. © 2016 Estate of Nancy Holt / SODRAC, Montreal / VAGA, New York.