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The definitive survey not only of Land Art but also of contemporary environmental art, featuring exquisite photographs of site-specific works in spectacular locations around the world. Essential reading for both art enthusiasts and anyone concerned with the environment, the book is the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book on the subject.

The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by the vast uncultivated spaces of the desert and mountain as well as post-industrial wastelands, artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson moved the earth to create colossal primal symbols. Others punctuated the horizon with man-made signposts, such as Christo's Running Fence or Walter de Maria's Lightning Field . Journeys became works of art for Richard Long while Dennis Oppenheim and Ana Mendieta immersed their bodies in the contours of the land.

This book traces early developments to the present day, as artists are exploring eco-systems and the interface between industrial, urban and rural cultures.

Survey Brian Wallis discusses the key artists, works and issues that define Land Art historically, as well as its later ramifications.

Works This book fully documents the 1960s Land Art movement and surveys examples of Environmental Art to the present day. Earthworks, environments, performances and actions by artists ranging from Ana Mendieta in the 1970s and 80s to Peter Fend in the 1990s are illustrated with breathtaking photographs, sketches and project notes.

Documents Jeffrey Kastner has compiled an invaluable archive of statements by all the featured artists alongside related texts by art historians, critics, philosophers and cultural theorists including Jean Baudrillard, Edmund Burke, Guy Debord, Michael Fried, Dave Hickey, Rosalind Krauss, Lucy R Lippard, Thomas McEvilley and Simon Schama.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. 10)
• Survey (p. 18)
• Works (p. 44)
• Integration (p. 45)
• Isamu Noguchi Sculpture to Be Seen from Mars (unrealized). 1947 (p. 45)
• Walter De Mapia Las Vagas Piece. 1969 (p. 46)
• Walter De Maria Desert Cross (destroyed). 1969 (p. 47)
• Dennis Oppenheim Negative Board. 1968 (p. 48)
• Dennis Oppenheim Accumulation Cut. 1969 (p. 49)
• Dennis Oppenheim Time Line. 1968 (p. 50)
• Dennis Oppenheim Cancelled Crop. 1969 (p. 50)
• Jan Dibbets A Trace in the Woods in the Form of an Angle of 30[degree] Crossing a Path. 1969 (p. 51)
• Michael Heizer Rift (deteriorated). 1968 (p. 52)
• Michael Heizer Isolated Mass. Circumflex. 1968 (p. 53)
• Michael Heizer Double Negative. 1969-70 (p. 54)
• Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty. 1970 (p. 56)
• Robert Smithson Spiral Hill. 1971 (p. 60)
• Robert Smithson Sunken Island. 1971 (p. 61)
• Robert Smithson Amarillo Ramp. 1973 (p. 62)
• Richard Fleischner Sod Maze. 1974 (p. 63)
• Herbert Bayer Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks. 1979-82 (p. 64)
• James Turrell Roden Craler. 1977-present (p. 65)
• Andy Goldsworthy Ice Piece. 1987 (p. 68)
• Andy Goldsworthy Torn Hole. 1986 (p. 69)
• Doris Bloom and William Kentridge. Gate. 1995 (p. 70)
• Doris Bloom and William Kentridge. Heart. 1995 (p. 71)
• Interruption (p. 72)
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude Running Fence. 1972-76 (p. 72)
• Hans Haacke Skyline. 1967 (p. 74)
• Carl Andre Secant. 1977 (p. 74)
• Cart Andre Log Piece (destroyed). 1968 (p. 74)
• Dennis Oppenheim Gallery Transplant. 1969 (p. 75)
• Dennis Oppenheim Salt Flat. 1968 (p. 76)
• Dennis Oppenheim Whirlpool. Eye of the Storm. 1973 (p. 77)
• Dennis Oppenheim Star Skid. 1977 (p. 78)
• Dennis Oppenheim Relocated Burial Ground. 1978 (p. 78)
• Richard Long Stone Circle. 1976 (p. 79)
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Coast. 1969 (p. 80)
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude Valley Curtain. 1970-72 (p. 82)
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude Surrounded Islands. 1980-83 (p. 83)
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude The Umbrellas. Japan-USA. 1984-91 (p. 84)
• Nancy Holt The Last Map Used to Locate Buried Poem Number 4 for Michael Heizer. 1969-71 (p. 86)
• Nancy Holt Buried Poem Number 4 for Michael Heizer. 1971 (p. 86)
• Nancy Holt Hydra's Head. 1974 (p. 87)
• Nancy Holt Sun Tunnels. 1973-76 (p. 88)
• Nancy Holt Star-Crossed. 1979-81 (p. 90)
• Nancy Holt Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings. 1977-78 (p. 90)
• Michael Heizer Dissipate (deteriorated). 1968 (p. 91)
• Michael Heizer Complex City. 1972-76 (p. 92)
• Robert Smithson Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan. 1969 (p. 94)
• Robert Smithson Gravel Corner Piece. 1968 (p. 95)
• Robert Smithson Chalk and Mirror Displacement. 1969 (p. 95)
• Robert Smithson Closed Mirror Square. 1969 (p. 95)
• Robert Smithson The Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis). 1969 (p. 96)
• Robert Smithson Glue Pour (destroyed). 1970 (p. 97)
• Robert Smithson Asphalt Rundown. 1969 (p. 98)
• Robert Smithson Partially Buried Woodshed. 1970 (p. 99)
• Robert Morris Observatory (first version. destroyed). 1971 (p. 100)
• Robert Morris Grand Rapids Project. 1974 (p. 101)
• Robert Morris Steam (second version). 1974 (p. 102)
• Ant Farm (Chip Lord. Hudson Marquez. Doug Michels) Cadillac Ranch. 1974 (p. 103)
• Alice Aycock A Simple Network of Underground Tunnels. 1975 (p. 104)
• Mary Miss Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys. 1977-78 (p. 105)
• Mary Miss Sunken Pool. 1974 (p. 106)
• Walter De Maria Vertical Earth Kilometer. 1977 (p. 107)
• Walter De Maria The Lightning Field. 1977 (p. 108)
• Walter De Maria The New York Earth Room. 1977 (p. 109)
• Betty Beaumont Cable Piece. 1977 (p. 110)
• Meg Webster Glen. 1988 (p. 111)
• Meg Webster Double Bed for Dreaming. 1988 (p. 111)
• Richard Serra Spin Out (for Robert Smithson). 1973 (p. 112)
• Toshikatsu Endo Epitaph - Cylindrical II. 1990 (p. 113)
• Involvement (p. 114)
• Walter De Maria Mile Long Drawing (destroyed). 1968 (p. 114)
• Kazuo Shiraga Challenging Mud. 1955 (p. 115)
• Kazuo Shiraga Please Come In. 1955 (p. 116)
• Dennis Oppenheim Parallel Stress. 1970 (p. 117)
• Peter Hutchinson Underwater Dam. 1969 (p. 118)
• Peter Hutchinson Flower Triangle Undersea. 1969 (p. 118)
• Peter Hutchinson Threaded Calabash. 1969 (p. 118)
• Peter Hutchinson Paricutin Volcano Project. 1970 (p. 119)
• Charles Simonds Landscape - Body - Dwelling. 1971 (p. 120)
• Charles Simonds Dwelling. 1974 (p. 120)
• Ana Mendieta Untitled (from the 'Silueta' series). 1979 (p. 121)
• Ana Mendieta Birth. 1982 (p. 122)
• Ana Mendieta Untitled (from the 'The Tree of Life' series). 1978 (p. 122)
• Ana Mendieta Untitled (from the 'Volcano' series). 1979 (p. 123)
• Ana Mendieta Untitled. 1983 (p. 123)
• Ana Mendieta Incantation to Olokun-Yemaya. 1977 (p. 123)
• Richard Long A Line Made by Walking. 1967 (p. 124)
• Richard Long A Line in the Himalayas. 1975 (p. 125)
• Richard Long A Walk by All Roads and Lanes Touching or Crossing an Imaginary Circle. 1977 (p. 126)
• Richard Long Waterlines. 1989 (p. 126)
• Richard Long Circle in Africa. Mulanje Mountain. Malawi. 1978 (p. 127)
• Richard Long A Line in Scotland. Cul Mor. 1981 (p. 127)
• Hamish Fulton Gazing at the Horizon Line. Sky Horizon Ground. Australia. 1982 (p. 128)
• Hamish Fulton The Crossing Place of Two Walks at Ringdom Gompa. 1984 (p. 128)
• Hamish Fulton Rock Fall Echo Dust (A Twelve and a Half Day Walk on Baffin Island Arctic Canada Summer 1988). 1988 (p. 129)
• Hamish Fulton Rock Path. Switzerland. 1986 (p. 130)
• Hamish Fulton Night Changing Shapes. 1991 (p. 130)
• Hamish Fulton No Talking for Seven Days (Walking for Seven Days In A Wood January Full Moon Cairngorms Scotland 1993). 1993 (p. 131)
• Cai Guo The Century with Mushroom Clouds. 1996 (p. 132)
• Christian Philipp Muller Illegal Border Crossing between Austria and the Principality of Liechtenstein. 1993 (p. 133)
• Cildo Meireles Geographical Mutations: Rio-Sao Paulo Border. 1969 (p. 134)
• Cildo Meireles Condensations 2 - Geographical Mutations: Rio-Sao Paulo Border. 1970 (p. 135)
• Implementation (p. 136)
• Peter Fend Ocean Earth: Europa. 1991 (p. 136)
• Hans Haacke Grass Grows. 1969 (p. 138)
• Hans Haacke Fog. Flooding. Erosion. 1969 (p. 139)
• Hans Haacke Ten Turtles Set Free. 1970 (p. 140)
• Hans Haacke Rhine-Water Purification Plant. 1972 (p. 141)
• Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison Portable Farm: The Flat Pastures. 1971-72 (p. 142)
• Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison Portable Orchard. Survival Piece No. 5. 1972 (p. 142)
• Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison If This Then That (The First Four): San Diego as the Center of the World. 1974 (p. 143)
• Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison That Idiot Theseus Did In the Minotaur (Sketch for the Seventh Lagoon. Buffalo Wallow). 1982 (p. 144)
• Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison The Lagoon Cycle. 1972-82 (p. 144)
• Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison The Lagoon Cycle: Fifth Lagoon. 1972-82 (p. 145)
• Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison The Lagoon Cycle. Fourth Lagoon. 1972-82 (p. 145)
• Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison Breathing Space for the Sava River. Yugoslavia. 1988-90 (p. 146)
• Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison Vision for the Green Heart of Holland. 1995 (p. 147)
• Robert Morris Untitled (reclamation of Johnson Gravel Pit). 1979 (p. 148)
• Harriet Feigenbaum Erosion and Sedimentation Plan for Red Ash and Coal Silt Area - Willow Rings. 1985 (p. 149)
• Alan Sonfist Time Landscape. 1965-78 (p. 150)
• Alan Sonfist Circles of Time. 1986-89 (p. 151)
• Alan Sonfist Pool of Virgin Earth. 1975 (p. 152)
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles Hartford Wash: Washing. Tracks. Maintenance: Outside. 1973 (p. 153)
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles Flow City. 1983-90 (p. 154)
• Bonnie Sherk The Farm. 1974 (p. 156)
• Bonnie Sherk The Raw Egg Animal Theatre (TREAT). 1976 (p. 156)
• Betty Beaumont Ocean Landmark Project. 1978-80 (p. 157)
• Patricia Johanson Fair Park Lagoon. 1981-86 (p. 158)
• Patricia Johanson Endangered Garden. Sunnydale Facilities. Site Plan. 1988 (p. 159)
• Agnes Denes Wheatfield - A Confrontation. 1982 (p. 160)
• Agnes Denes North Waterfront Park Masterplan. 1988 (p. 161)
• Agnes Denes Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule - 10.000 Trees. 10,000 People. 400 Years. 1982 (p. 161)
• Herman de vries The meadow. 1986-present (p. 162)
• Joseph Beuys 7.000 Oaks. 1982 (p. 164)
• Joseph Beuys 7.000 Oaks. 1996 (p. 165)
• Viet Ngo Devil's Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant. 1990 (p. 166)
• Buster Simpson The Hudson Headwaters Purge - Anti-acid Treatment. 1991 (p. 167)
• Mel Chin Revival Field. Pig's Eye Landfill. 1990-93 (p. 168)
• Platform Effra Redevelopment Agency. 1992 (p. 169)
• Platform Delta. 1993 (p. 169)
• Peter Fend Ocean Earth: Oil Free Corridor. 1993 (p. 170)
• Peter Fend Offshore Soil Rig. 1993 (p. 170)
• Peter Fend Ocean Earth: Site Simulator for Tivat Bay. 1991 (p. 172)
• Peter Fend Ocean Earth: Processed Imagery from Avhrr of the North Sea. 1988 (p. 172)
• Avital Geva Greenhouse. 1977-96 (p. 173)
• Imagining (p. 174)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay View of the lochan at Little Sparta. Lanarkshire (p. 174)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay Signature of the Artist Hodler. 1987 (p. 175)
• Douglas Huebler 42 Degree Parallel Piece. 1968 (p. 176)
• Art & Language (Terry Atkinson. Michael Baldwin) Map. 1967 (p. 176)
• John Baldessari The California Map Project. Part 1: California. 1969 (p. 178)
• Gordon Matta-Clark Realty Positions: Fake Estates. 1973 (p. 180)
• Jan Dibbets Perspective Corrections (Square with Two Diagonals). 1968 (p. 181)
• Jan Dibbets 12 Hours Tide Objects with Correction of Perspective. 1969 (p. 181)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay Woodwind Song. 1968 (p. 182)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay See Poussin. Hear Lorrain. 1975 (p. 183)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay Flock. 1991 (p. 183)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay The Present Order. 1983 (p. 183)
• Alighiero Boetti The Thousand Longest Rivers in The World. 1979 (p. 184)
• William Furlong Time Garden: HA HA. 1993 (p. 185)
• Lothar Baumgarten Theatrum Botanicum. 1993-94 (p. 186)
• Christian Philipp Muller A Balancing Act. 1997 (p. 187)
• Mark Dion A Meter of Jungle. 1992 (p. 188)
• Mark Dion The Tasting Garden (proposal). 1996 (p. 189)
• Documents (p. 190)
• Inception (p. 193)
• Edmund Burke A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful. 1757 (p. 193)
• Uvedale Price An Essay on the Picturesque. 1796 (p. 193)
• John Brinckerhoff Jackson The World Itself. 1984 (p. 194)
• John Barrell The Idea of Landscape in the Eighteenth Century. 1972 (p. 195)
• Kenneth Friedman Words on the Environment. 1983 (p. 195)
• Dave Hickey Earthscapes. Iandworks and Oz. 1971 (p. 196)
• Willoughby Sharp Notes Toward an Understanding of Earth Art. 1970 (p. 199)
• Michel Foucault Space. Knowledge and Power. 1984 (p. 202)
• Claes Oldenburg I Am for an Art...1961 (p. 202)
• Harold Rosenberg De-aestheticization. 1972 (p. 202)
• Michael Heizer. Dennis Oppenheim. Robert Smithson Interview with Avalanche. 1970 (p. 202)
• Integration (p. 206)
• Isamu Noguchi Artist's statement. 1926 (p. 206)
• Isamu Noguchi Artist's statement. 1946 (p. 206)
• Jack Kerouac On the Road. 1959 (p. 207)
• Rosalind Krauss Passages in Modern Sculpture. 1977 (p. 207)
• Thomas McEvilley The Rightness of Wrongness: Modernism and Its Alter Ego...1992 (p. 207)
• Jan Dibbets Artist's statement. 1972 (p. 208)
• Diane Waldman Holes without History. 1971 (p. 210)
• Robert Smithson A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects. 1968 (p. 211)
• Robert Smithson The Spiral Jetty. 1972 (p. 215)
• John Coplans The Amarillo Ramp. 1974 (p. 218)
• James Turrell Air Mass. 1993 (p. 219)
• James Turrell Mapping Spaces. 1987 (p. 220)
• Andy Goldsworthy Stone. 1994 (p. 220)
• Doris Bloom and William Kentridge Heart and Gate. 1995 (p. 220)
• Sidney Tillim Earthworks and the New Picturesque. 1968 (p. 221)
• Interruption (p. 223)
• Michael Fried Art and Objecthood. 1967 (p. 223)
• Carl Andre Artist's statement. 1970 (p. 224)
• Dennis Oppenheim Another Point of Entry: Interview with Alanna Heiss. 1992 (p. 224)
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude Project Notes. 1969-91 (p. 226)
• Nancy Holt Sun Tunnels. 1977. revised. 1995 (p. 227)
• Michael Heizer Interview with Julia Brown. 1984 (p. 228)
• Robert Smithson The Monuments of Passaic: Has Passaic replaced Rome as the eternal city? 1967 (p. 229)
• Robert Morris Notes on Sculpture Part 4: Beyond Objects. 1969 (p. 230)
• Chip Lord Automerica. 1976 (p. 231)
• Alice Aycock Project for a Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels. 1975 (p. 231)
• Kate Linker Mary Miss. 1983 (p. 232)
• Walter De Maria The Lightning Field. 1970 (p. 232)
• Rosalind Krauss Sculpture in the Expanded Field. 1979 (p. 233)
• Donna Harkavy Meg Webster. 1988 (p. 234)
• Richard Serra Spin-Out '72-'73 for Bob Smithson. 1973 (p. 234)
• Involvement (p. 235)
• Henry David Thoreau Walking. 1861 (p. 235)
• Sigmund Freud Moses and Monotheism. 1938 (p. 235)
• Guy Debord Theory of the Derive. 1956 (p. 237)
• Fujiko Shiraga About Myself and the Outdoor Exhibition. 1955 (p. 237)
• Peter Hutchinson Paricutin Volcano Project. 1970 (p. 237)
• Lucy R. Lippard Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory. 1983 (p. 238)
• Charles Simonds Microcosm to Macrocosm. Fantasy World to Real World: Interview with Lucy R. Lippard. 1974 (p. 239)
• Nancy Spero Tracing Ana Mendieta. 1992 (p. 240)
• Alan Sonfist Autobiography. 1975 (p. 240)
• Richard Long Five. six. pick up sticks. Seven, eight, lay them straight. 1980 (p. 241)
• Hamish Fulton Into a Walk into Nature. 1995 (p. 242)
• Stephen Bann The Map as Index of the Real: Land Art and the Authentication of Travel. 1994 (p. 243)
• Christian Philipp Muller Green Border. 1993 (p. 245)
• Guy Brett Cildo Meireles: Through. 1989 (p. 246)
• Octavio Zaya Cai Guo Qiang. 1996 (p. 247)
• Jane Tomkins Language and Landscape: An Ontology for the Western. 1990 (p. 247)
• Toshikatsu Endo On Fire. 1991 (p. 248)
• Fumio Nanjo Toshikatsu Endo. 1989 (p. 248)
• Implementation (p. 250)
• Rachel Carson A Fable for Tomorrow. 1962 (p. 250)
• Simon Schama Landscape and Memory. 1995 (p. 251)
• Robert Smithson Untitled (Across the Country...). 1979 (p. 251)
• Jack Burnham Hans Haacke - Wind and Water Sculpture. 1967 (p. 251)
• Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison If This Then That (The First Four): San Diego as the Centre of the World. 1974 (p. 254)
• Robert Morris Notes on Art as/and Land Reclamation. 1980 (p. 254)
• Jack Burnham Contemporary Ritual: A Search for Meaning in Post-Historical Terms. 1973 (p. 256)
• Alan Sonfist Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments. 1968 (p. 257)
• Lucy R. Lippard Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory. 1983 (p. 258)
• Lucy R. Lippard The Garbage Girls. 1991 (p. 259)
• Agnes Denes Wheatfield - A Confrontation. 1982 (p. 261)
• Agnes Denes Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule - 10.000 Trees. 10.000 People. 400 Years. 1982-95 (p. 262)
• Michael Fehr herman's Meadow. A Museum. 1992 (p. 262)
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles Flow City. 1995 (p. 263)
• Peter Fend A Post-Facto Statement. 1994 (p. 263)
• Viet Ngo Lemna Systems. 1995 (p. 264)
• Mel Chin Revival Field. 1995 (p. 264)
• Platform Seeing is Believing. 1992 (p. 265)
• Patricia Johanson Fair Park Lagoon. 1981-86. and Endangered Garden. 1987-97 (p. 265)
• Harriet Feigenbaum Reclamation Art. 1986 (p. 266)
• Joseph Beuys Interview with Richard Demarco. 1982 (p. 266)
• Bonnie Sherk Crossroads Community (The Farm). 1977 (p. 268)
• Buster Simpson Hudson Headwater Purge. 1996 (p. 268)
• Betty Beaumont Script from the film The Journey. 1980 (p. 268)
• Smadar Golan To Raise the World. 1987 (p. 268)
• Avital Geva Vital Principles for the Greenhouse. 1993 (p. 270)
• Stephen Jay Gould The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis. 1992 (p. 270)
• Imagining (p. 272)
• Douglas Huebler Location Piece no. 14. Global Proposal. 1969 (p. 272)
• John Baldessari California Map Project. 1969 (p. 272)
• Gordon Matta-Clark Interview with Avalanche. 1974 (p. 273)
• George Baker Christian Philipp Muller. A Balancing Act. 1997 (p. 273)
• Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin Some Notes. 1967 (p. 273)
• Anne-Marie Sauzeau Boetti Introduction to Classifying the Thousand Longest Rivers in the World. 1977 (p. 274)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay More Detached Sentences on Gardening in the Manner of Shenstone. 1995 (p. 274)
• William Furlong Time Garden. 1993 (p. 276)
• Guy Tortosa A Seasoned Garden. 1995 (p. 276)
• Robert Smithson An Interview with Bruce Kurtz. 1972 (p. 277)
• J.G. Ballard Robert Smithson as Cargo Cultist. 1997 (p. 277)
• Mark Dion The Tasting Garden. 1997 (p. 277)
• Illumination (p. 279)
• John Beardsley Art and Authoritarianism: Walter De Maria's Lightning Field. 1981 (p. 279)
• Lawrence Alloway Site Inspection. 1976 (p. 280)
• Craig Owens Earthwords. 1979 (p. 281)
• Gerry Schum Introduction to the Television-Exhibition: Land Art. 1969 (p. 283)
• Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. 1936 (p. 283)
• Joseph Masheck The Spiral Jetty Movie. 1984 (p. 283)
• Jean Baudrillard The Hyperrealism of Simulation. 1988 (p. 285)
• Kate Soper Nature/'nature'. 1996 (p. 285)
• Artists' Biographies (p. 288)
• Authors' Biographies (p. 295)
• Bibliography (p. 298)
• Index (p. 301)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jeffrey Kastner, based in New York, is a writer on art and culture. Senior Editor of Cabinet magazine, he is a former Senior Editor of ARTnews , and Contributing Editor of Art Monthly. As well as lecturing on art in America and Europe, Kastner has contributed reviews and essays on contemporary art and popular culture for numerous magazines, including Artforum , Art & Design, Flash Art, The Economist and frieze.

Brian Wallis is Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York. As well as curating, he has taught Critical Theory at Yale University and was McCracken Fellow at New York University. Wallis has authored and edited numerous books on contemporary culture, among them Art After Modernism (New Museum/David Godine, 1984), Blasted Allegories (New Museum/MIT Press, 1986) and Constructing Masculinity(Routledge, 1995). In 1996 he curated the exhibition 'Counterculture: Alternative Information from the Underground Press to the Internet' at Exit Art in New York. Wallis was formerly senior editor of Art in America and a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, where he organized serveral exhibitions including a Hans Haacke retrospective in 1986.