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"City" enormous earth art
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noticed this on Wikipedia ( link )
"City is a piece of earth art located in Garden Valley, a desert valley in rural Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Nevada, near the border with Nye County. The work was begun in 1972 by the artist Michael Heizer and is ongoing. Like his previous Double Negative (1969), City is designed and executed on a massive scale. Covering a space approximately one and a quarter miles long and more than a quarter of a mile wide (roughly the scale of the National Mall), City is one of the largest sculptures ever created. Using earth, rocks and concrete as building materials and assembled with heavy machinery, the work comprises five phases, each consisting of a number of structures referred to as complexes, with some of the structures reaching a height of eighty feet.
City attempts to synthesize ancient monuments, Minimalism and industrial technology. The work derives inspiration from Mississippian mounds, Mesoamerican ball courts and Pre-Columbian sites like La Venta as well as Modernism. Heizer also cites an interest in the ceremonial squares and associated civic monuments of cites."
i wish i could see more pics
another article here: link
anyone know of more modern art on this sort of scale? | |
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celibacyclub
i dont know of anything modern, but in central america the mayans/astecs ect. made lots of stuffs like this.
tekal is one of the better examples. link
08/25/06
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SenorFrio
Wow, that's super cool.
08/25/06
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damon
Michael Heizer is a badass. He will shoot at you if you come on the property thats on (it isn't done yet).
But there are plenty of good large scale earth works.
James Turrell's Roden Crater comes to mind: link
Smithson's Spiral Jetty (duh).
Walter De Maria has done some monumental (in a certain sense) works too like 1 mile parallel line drawing, vertical earth kilometer and the lightning field: link / link
08/25/06
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damon
(ps that isnt "modern" art.)
08/26/06
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Adjective
sorry, i meant modern as in "recently made"
not in reference to whatever genre may exist or the age of the technique
i'm a dropout, don't pick on me
08/26/06
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astroid
celibacyclub said: "i dont know of anything modern, but in central america the mayans/astecs ect. made lots of stuffs like this.
tekal is one of the better examples."
tikal is amazing. i wanna live there.
10/28/06
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lunatinker
inspiration from Mississippian mounds - - seen those. they're interesting!
also there are more with copper artifacts all 'round the mounds in Georgia / Alabama area.
There are some real great lines in a book by
Barry Lopez : crossing open ground
there's a dialog about a horse carved in rock just at level with the surrounding sand....
visible only if you know where it is.........
best book about geography/archeology i've read in a while. great writer....
04/22/07
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MatthewCosta
wow those look sick
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