Ichthyophiidae
Ichthyophiidae (ichthyophids; class Amphibia, order Apoda) A family of amphibians in which the adults are terrestrial and have functional eyes and a small tail. Eggs are laid on land. The gilled, aquatic, larval stage is of variable duration before
metamorphosis. Adults burrow but feed on the surface at night, eating earthworms, arthropods, and small vertebrates. There are 43 species, occurring in the New World tropics, southern Asia, and Ausralia.
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LAND ARTS FOUNDER TO SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ART MUSEUM
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/7/2009; 535 words
; ...Bill Gilbert, founder of Land Arts of the American West at...philosophy at the UNM Art Museum on Tuesday, Nov...Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West...his new book, "Land Arts of the American West...with Chris Taylor. UNM Art Museum exhibits and events...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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Paintings rooted in the land.(Arts & Literature)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 1/11/2007; 700+ words
; ...Bird, a Lane Community College art instructor who has a show opening...where he got his master of fine arts degree in 1993. He grew up...state. ``I was always on the land,'' he says. ``I spent all my time on the land. That's what my work is all about.'' Bird, 47, came to art relatively late ...
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Land, Arts Funding Request Cut
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/30/1999; 338 words
; ...14.1 billion for federal land and arts programs next year, $1.1...Clinton requested. In the House land and cultural programs bill, Clinton's touted "lands legacy" program was cut from...national endowments for the arts and the humanities were held...
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 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Focusing on Nature's Sweep: Vast Images of No Man's Land.(Arts&Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 10/14/2002; 700+ words
; ...Photography, Daniel Kunitz, art critic for The New York Sun...medium's status as a lesser art. I'm not about to open that...when I believe it's a lesser art and days when I don't. One...literally, pictures of no man's land. The all-over concentration...
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Was Hollywood a promised land? ; ARTS & BOOKS REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/27/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...tradition might have shaped one of the 20th-century's great art forms. This can be a dangerous question to ask - as Mamet acknowledges...arrived at Ellis Island. The result was a celluloid Promised Land, which was, tellingly, eerily devoid of Eastern European immigrants...
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 "The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)")
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LAND/ART HO!(Pasatiempo)
Newspaper article from: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM); 6/26/2009; 700+ words
; ...issues considered by the LAND/ART project. This extraordinary...Shields, independent arts writer, curator, and...Gilbert, a member of the LAND/ART steering committee, participating...and director of the Land Arts of the American West program...be featured at the UNM Art ...
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Cultural Ecology.(Land, Art. A Cultural Ecology Handbook)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Art Monthly; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Land, Art. A Cultural Ecology Handbook, ed Max Andrews, Royal Society of Arts, London, 2006, 280pp, hb, 20.00 [pounds sterling], 978 090146957 1. Land Art has come to be associated with the environmental...
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On the road: Jeffrey Weiss on land art today.(The Sorrows of Young Werther)(Movie review)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; LAND ART, whatever else it is, can be identified...Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s," an exhibition mounted this...wilderness. Yet what is "landed" about Land art was not, in this setting, always clear...
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Remote possibilities: a roundtable discussion on Land art's changing terrain.(Discussion)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...least, from traditional art-world centers. In fact...Antarctica, Rirkrit and the Land in Thailand, and Andrea...aesthetics" in this art, given that forms of...debates played out around Land art in the '60s; the...unequivalent with his Land art, necessarily revealed...
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Arte: Pintura rupestre y land art.(TT: Art: land art and cave painting.)(Reseña)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 2/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...que resaltar un amplio despliegue de land art, concebido por l en palabras, resuelto...ramas principales que lo conforman: land art, earth art y arte ecolgico. Mientras...earth art se realiza con tierra, el land art se hace en la tierra. En todos...
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Land art
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Land art (or Earth art or Earthworks ). A type of...kind of art, just like any other, and some Land artists at least have made handsome livings from it. The concept of Land art was established by an exhibition at the...
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land art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
land art or earthworks, art form developed in the...Utah, is a characteristic example of the land art form. Because of the fluctuating water...project yet attempted. Still another monumental land art work is James Turrell's Roden Crater...
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Public Lands
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
...and in the Property Clause (Art. IV, sec. 3, cl. 2...federal ownership of public lands. Hence, states may not tax federal lands. However, the states have...criminal laws on federal public lands within their borders, except...government's acquisition of land in the state under the Enclave...
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Land Scrip
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...agricultural and mechanical arts colleges. Land was given to states containing...domain; states with no public lands were given scrip that they had to sell to third parties to enter land in public domain states. As...below the basic price of public lands, thereby reducing the cost...
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Pre-1600: The Arts: Overview
Book article from: American Eras
Pre-1600: The Arts: Overview Colonial Cultural...structures but also new art and architectural forms...colonists usurped native land, pushing the indigenous...searching for riches and new lands to govern but also seeking...Monumental architecture and art became important by...and conversion. ...
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