From: Art Journal | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: Boettger, Suzaan | COPYRIGHT 1996 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

With these five publications, Robert Smithson's complaint about "earth projects" - "To organize this mess of corrosion into patterns, grids, and subdivisions is an esthetic process that has scarcely been touched" - is definitely no longer true. Sure, there is still some "muddy thinking," but these siftings through the sedimentation of what we now call land art more often produce "conceptual crystallizations."(1) Each of these authors offers a useful viewpoint onto the sculptural terr...