Bibliography

Films

Brenner, Neil. "Reframing the Urban: Cities and their Global Impact." Urban Theory Lab, 2015.

Castaing-Taylor, Lucien and Véréna Paravel. Sweetgrass. 2009.

Crump, James. Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art. 2015.

Else, Jon. Day After Trinity. YouTube. 1981.

Fox, Josh. Gasland. YouTube. 2010.

Galison, Peter and Robb Moss. Containment. 2015.

Holt, Nancy and Robert Smithson. East Coast, West Coast. 1969.

———. Swamp. YouTube. 1971.

Pray, Doug. Levitated Mass. 2013.

Smithson, Robert. Spiral Jetty. 1970.

Additional Readings

Buy at Amazon Ali, Saleem H. "Mining on Indigenous Lands: The North American Experience." In Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts. University of Arizon Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780816528790. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Boettger, Suzaan. Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties. University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520221086. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Blaikie, Piers and Harold Brookfield, eds. Land Degradation and Society. Reissue editon. Routledge, 2016. ISBN: 9781138923072. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Boym, Svetlana. Architecture of the Off‐Modern. Reprint edition. Princton Architectural Press, 2012. ISBN: 9781616891039. [Preview with Google Books]

Cooley, Bradford D. "The Navajo Uranium Ban: Tribal Sovereignty v. National Energy Demands." Journal of Land Resources & Environmental Law 26 (2005).

Buy at Amazon Baker, George, Bob Phillips, et al. Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty. Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. University of California Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780520245549.

Buy at Amazon Corn, Wanda M. The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935. Revised edition. University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520231993.

Buy at Amazon Cronon, William. Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. ISBN: 9780393038729.

Buy at Amazon David, Bruno and Julian Thomas, eds. Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 9781598746167. [Preview with Google Books]

Demos, T. J. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.“Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology: An Introduction.” (PDF) Third Text, 27:1 (2013): 1-9.

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Fujie, Atushi. “Michael Heizer’s Land Art.” In Bigaku: The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics, 55:1 (Summer, 2004).

Goldman, Judith. “My Sculpture in the Desert: Robert C. Scull and Michael Heizer.” In Archives of American Art Journal 50: 1/2 (Spring 2011): 62–67.

Buy at Amazon Gilpin, William. Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty, On Picturesque Travel, And On Sketching Landscape : To Which Is Added A Poem On Landscape Painting. Nabu Press, 2012. ISBN: 9781286762400. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Taylor, Chris and Bill Gilbert. Land Arts of the American West. University of Texas Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780292716728.

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Buy at Amazon Hogan, Erin. Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West. Reprint edition. University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780226348469. [Preview with Google Books]

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Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Klingan, Katrin, Ashkan Sepahvand, et al., eds. Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain Vapor Ray (4 volume set). The MIT Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780262527415.

Knight, Christopher. “Review: LACMA’s new hunk ‘Levitated Mass’ has some substance.” Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2012.

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Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Kwon, Miwon. One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. The MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262612029. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Lee, Pamela M. Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-­Clakr. The MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780262621564. [Preview with Google Books]

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Lütticken, Sven. “Mutations and Misunderstandings: Notes Towards a History of Bio-aesthetic Practice.” Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, January 2013.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Maillet, Arnaud. The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art. The MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781890951481.

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Zepke, Stephen. "Eco-aesthetics: beyond structure in the work of Robert Smithson, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari." In Universitas Philosophica. Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009.

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