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
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Boettger, Suzaan. Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties. University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520221086. [Preview with Google Books]
Blaikie, Piers and Harold Brookfield, eds. Land Degradation and Society. Reissue editon. Routledge, 2016. ISBN: 9781138923072. [Preview with Google Books]
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).
Baker, George, Bob Phillips, et al. Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty. Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. University of California Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780520245549.
Corn, Wanda M. The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935. Revised edition. University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520231993.
Cronon, William. Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. ISBN: 9780393038729.
David, Bruno and Julian Thomas, eds. Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 9781598746167. [Preview with Google Books]
Demos, T. J. “Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology: An Introduction.” (PDF) Third Text, 27:1 (2013): 1-9.
Dodge, William A. Black Rock: A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place. University Press of Mississippi, 2007. ISBN: 9781578069934. [Preview with Google Books]
Fein, Albert. Frederick Law Olmsted and the American Environmental Tradition. George Braziller, 1972. ISBN: 9780807606506.
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.
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]
Taylor, Chris and Bill Gilbert. Land Arts of the American West. University of Texas Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780292716728.
Glotfelty, Cheryll and Harold Fromm, eds. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. University of Georgia Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780820317816. [Preview with Google Books]
Harrison, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison. The Time of the Force Majeure: After 45 Years Counterforce is on the Horizon. Prestel, 2016. ISBN: 9783791355498.
Butler, Judith and Joan W. Scott, eds. “Ecce Homo, Ain’t (Ar’n’t) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: the Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape.” In Feminists Theorize the Political. Routledge, 1992. ISBN: 9780415902748. [Preview with Google Books]
Hills, Patricia. Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century. Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN: 9780130361387.
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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Jones, Caroline A. Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist. University of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780226406480. [Preview with Google Books]
Kastner, Jeffrey, ed. Nature (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art). The MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262517669.
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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.
Kolodny, Annette. The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters. The University of North Carolina Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780807841181. [Preview with Google Books]
Kwon, Miwon. One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. The MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262612029. [Preview with Google Books]
Lee, Pamela M. Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clakr. The MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780262621564. [Preview with Google Books]
Lekan, Thomas M. Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945. Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780674010703. [Preview with Google Books]
Linder, Mark. Nothing Less than Literal: Architecture After Minimalism. The MIT Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780262622080.
Lütticken, Sven. “Mutations and Misunderstandings: Notes Towards a History of Bio-aesthetic Practice.” Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, January 2013.
Maillet, Arnaud. The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art. The MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781890951481.
Malpas, Jeff, ed. The Place of Landscape: Concepts: Contexts, Studies. The MIT Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780262015523. [Preview with Google Books]
Merchant, Carolyn. Major Problems in American Environmental History. 3rd edition. Cengage Learning, 2011. ISBN: 9780495912422.
Meyer, James. Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780300105902.
Miller, Angela. The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825–1875. Cornell University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780801483387.
Mitchell, John Hanson. Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile. Counterpoint, 1997. ISBN: 9780201149371. [Preview with Google Books]
Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Uncanny Landscape.” In The Ground of the Image. Translated by Jeff Fort. Fordham University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780823225415. [Preview with Google Books]
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Oelschlaeger, Max. The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology. Reprint edition. Yale University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780300053708.
Prat, Ramon. Desert America: Territory of Paradox. Actar, 2006. ISBN: 9788496540095.
Pregill, Philip and Nancy Volkman. Landscapes in History. 2nd edition. John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN: 9780471293286. [Preview with Google Books]
Roberts, Jennifer L. Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History. Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780300094978.
Reynolds, Ann. Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere. The MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262681551. [Preview with Google Books]
Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory. Reprint edition. Vintage, 1996. ISBN: 9780679735120.
Shapiro, Gary. Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel. University of California Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780520212350.
Solnit, Rebecca. As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art. University of Georgia Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780820324937.
———. Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics. University of California Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780520256569. [Preview with Google Books]
Smith, Kimberly K. African American Environmental Thought: Foundations. University Press of Kansas, 2007. ISBN: 9780700615162.
Smith, Valerie, Julian Agyeman, et al. Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism. Queens Museum of Art, 2006. ISBN: 9781929641062.
Ursprung, Philip. Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the Limits to Art. Translated by Fiona Elliott. University of California Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780520245419. [Preview with Google Books]
Daston, Lorraine J., ed. “Staging an Empire.” In Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science. Zone Books, 2007. ISBN: 9781890951443.
Witherspoon, Gary. Language and Art in the Navajo Universe. University of Michigan Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780472089666. [Preview with Google Books]
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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