CHAPTER 10: SITE SPECIFIC-ART

Definition

• Site Specific art are produced for one• location. • The content and the meaning are linked

to the site.• The term site specific art started in the

1960s and 1970s as a blanket category for art that was created for or in a specific location.

Types of Site-Specific Art

• There are many types, goals, and styles of site-specific art including:

• Land and environmental art

• Ephemeral art

• Public art

• Monuments

Nazca Lines - Figure of a Hummingbird

FIG: 10-1, p.198 ROBERT SMITHSON. Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah (1970) Black Rocks, salt, earth, eater, and algae. L:1,500’; W:15’.

FIG: 10-2, p.199 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY. Ice Piece (12 January 1987). Cibachrome photograph. 76cm x76cm.

FIG: 10-4 MARCO EVARISTTI. The Ice Cube Project (204). Red dye and seawater, Greenland coast.

FIG: 10-7, p. 201 WALTER DE MARIA. The Lighting Field (1977). 400 polished stainless steel poles, each d.5.1(2) x h. 628.7(247.5), total area 1 mile x 1km. Quernado, New Mexico.

FIG: 10-9, p.203 Ariel view of The Gates in Central Park with Manhattan Skyline.

Michael Heizer, Double Negative, 1969/1970

FIG: 10-12, p.204 CHARLES SIMONDS. Landscape - Body - Dwelling (1971). Artist’s body, clay. Life Size.

Gordon Matta-Clark "Conical Intersect" 1975

EPHEMERAL ART

FIG: 10-13, p.205 CAI GUO-QJANG. Transient Rainbow over East River. New York City (2002).

Chris Burden

Chris Burden

Joseph Beuys

Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

PUBLIC ART

Richard Serra [American, 1939– ], Tilted Arc, 1981.

FIG: 10-18, p.208 ANTONI GAUDI. Serpent/Salamander (1900-1914). Parc Guell, Barcelona, Spain.

FIG: 10-22, p.209 ANISH KAPOOR. Cloud Gate. Millennium Park, Chicago.

MONUMENTS

FIG: 10-23, p.210 Cow from the Cow Parade (2006). Boston, Massachusetts.

FIG: 10-26, p.211 PETER EISENMAN. Holocaust Memorail, Berlin (2004).

FIG: 10-28, p.213 MAYA YING LIN. Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C. (1982). Polished black granite. L:492’.