Gianfranco Gorgoni : land art photographs / Ann M. Wolfe ; essays by Germano Celant, William L. Fox ; Design, Brad Bartlett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolfe, Ann M.

Celant, Germano.

Fox, William L., 1949-

Gorgoni, Gianfranco.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gorgoni, Gianfranco.

Photography of art--Exhibitions.

Photography of art.

Earthworks (Art)--Exhibitions.

Earthworks (Art).

Gorgoni, Gianfranco--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 31 x 32 cm

Other Title:

Gorgoni

Place of Publication:

Reno : Nevada Museum of Art ; New York : Monacelli, [2021]

Summary:

For five decades, photographer Gianfranco Gorgoni (1941-2019) built his reputation as the premier documentarian of Land Art in the US and beyond. After leaving Italy, Gorgoni started making portraits of the major artists of the New York scene, including Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Walter De Maria, Carl Andre, and Richard Serra.0It was not long before he was traveling with Heizer, Smithson, and De Maria to the American West in the late 1960s to plot the works that would famously break art practice out of the confines of the gallery world. In Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, these artists embarked on major Land Art installations that would redefine contemporary art practice of the era. In many cases, Gorgoni was the only photographer on the ground to document their projects, and his images often serve as the definitive photographic record of the planning and creation of these groundbreaking works.0Published to coincide with the first major exhibition of Gorgoni?s photographic Land Art images at the Nevada Museum of Art, featuring over fifty of his large-scale photographs, Gianfranco Gorgoni: Land Art Photographs includes an introduction by Ann M. Wolfe, Andrea and John C. Deane Family senior curator and deputy director at the Nevada Museum of Art, an essay by the late art historian and critic Germano Celant, whose contribution here is among the last he wrote before his death in 2020, and William L. Fox, the Peter E. Pool Director of the Center for Art + Environment.00Exhibition: Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA (26.06.2021-02.01.2022).

Contents:

Foreword / David B. Walker

Fifty years of desert mischief, Gianfranco Gorgoni : land art photographs / Ann M. Wolfe

Gianfranco Gorgoni : landing / Germano Celant

Going to ground : performing land art as a photograph / William L. Fox.

ISBN:

9781580935593

1580935591

OCLC:

1280406305