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Land Art, Earthworks or Earth Art: is an art movement which emerged in America in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are linked. Sculptures are not placed in the landscape; rather the landscape is the very means of their creation. The works often exist in the open, located well away from civilization, left to change and erosion under natural conditions. Many of the first works, created in the deserts of Nevada, New Mexico, Utah or Arizona were ephemeral in nature and now only exist as video recordings or photographic documents.


History:
Land Art is to be understood as a protest against the artificial plastic models of art at the end of the 1960s in America. Isamu Noguchi's 1941 design for Contoured Playground in New York is sometimes interpreted as an important early piece of Land Art even though the artist himself never called his work "Land Art" but simply "sculpture".

Land artists:
Betty Beaumont
Walter de Maria
Lucien den Arend
Harvey Fite
Andy Goldsworthy
Junichi Kakizaki
Richard Long
John K. Melvin
David Nash
John Pfahl
Andrew Rogers
Alan Sonfist
James Turrell
Elisabeth Wierzbicka Wela

Sculpture sites:
FOAM Finnish Open Air Museum - Finland
International Museum of the open-air Sculpture, "Europos Parkas", Vilnius, Lithuania
Penttilä Open Air Museum POAM - Finland
Le vent de forets - France
OPAM Open Air Museum, Sculpture Park Drechtbanks - Holland ,
Kemyel Crease Sculpture project,
Storm King Art Center - Mountainville, NY

Pictures of Land Art: