- Alan
Sonfist (born
March 26, 1946) is a New York City
based American artist best
known as a "pioneer" and a "trailblazer" of the Land or
Earth Art movement...
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architecture and
environmental sculpture is
evident in many
works today. Alan
Sonfist used an
alternative approach to
working with
nature and
culture by bringing...
- Time
Landscape is a
landscape artwork by
American artist Alan
Sonfist.
Proposed in 1965, it
consists of
plants that were
native to the New York City area...
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contemporary artists working with the land and
natural systems. In 1965, Alan
Sonfist introduced a key
environmentalist idea of
bringing nature back into the...
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environmental sculpture under this definition.
Andrew Rogers and Alan
Sonfist are
among notable current practitioners of land art.
Since the mid-seventies...
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Agnes Denes,
Helen and
Newton Harrison,
Ocean Earth,
Robert Smithson, Alan
Sonfist, and
Mierle Laderman Ukeles,
among others.
Ecovention is also the title...
- paintings,
Sonfist depicts trees selected from the
majestic 19th-century
landscapes of his “heroes,” the
Hudson River School artists.
Sonfist disrupts their...
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Charlotte Moorman,
Antoni Muntadas,
Yvonne Rainer,
Keiko Prince, Alan
Sonfist, Aldo Tambellini, Joe Davis, Bill Seaman,
Tamiko Thiel,
Alejandro Sina...
- "The
American Forest" by the
American artist and
environmentalist Alan
Sonfist. When
released in
France the film
achieved 1,378,207 admissions, and Resnais...
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important site for
works of the land art movement. It was the site of Alan
Sonfist's Pool of
Virgin Earth, a 25-foot-diameter (7.6 m) clay
basin for catching...
