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Subject Guide for Art: Environmental Art

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Art Fulltext (1984+) International periodical coverage includes journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. UT NetID & Password required

Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) International periodical coverage includes yearbooks, and museum bulletins. UT Password required

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Design and Applied Arts Index (1973+) Indexes design and craft journals and newspapers. Includes news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Covers all design fields including furniture, interiors, textile, graphic, multimedia, packaging, and theater. UT NetID & Password required

Grove Dictionary of Art Online Provides access to over 45,000 signed articles with over 22,000 image links. Provides extensive coverage of all visual arts from prehistoric times to present day with a multicultural scope. UT NetID & Password required

Print Resources

Adcock, Craig E. James Turrell: the art of light and space. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. N6537.T78 A84

Beardsley, John. Gardens of Revelation: environments by visionary artists. New York: Abbeville Press, 1995. N7432.5A78 B43

Boettger, Suzaan. Earthworks: art and the landscape of the sixties. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. N6494.E27 B64

Bourdon, David. Designing the Earth: the human impulse to shape nature. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1995. TA715. B65

Coe, Ralph T. Dale Eldred: sculpture into environment. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1977. Oversize NB237.E43 C63

Cooper, Paul. Livingsculpture. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2001. SB463.C66

Diserens, Corinne, Ed. Gordon Matta-Clark. London: Phaidon, 2003. N6537.M3947 A4

Feddersen, Jutta. Soft Sculpture and Beyond: an international perspective. Roseville, Australia: Craftsman House, 1993. N6494.C63 F43

Finn, David. Henry Moore: sculpture and environment. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1976. NB497.M6 F52

Goldsworth, Andy. Time. New York, H.N. Abrams, 2000. NB497.G64 A4

Gooding, Mel. Artists Land Nature. New York: H. N. Abrams, 2002. N6494.E27 G66

Grande, John K. Art Nature Dialogues: interviews with environmental artists. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. N6494.E6

Graziani, Ron. Robert Smithson and the American Landscape. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. N6537.S6184 G73

Havlice, Patricia Pate. Earth Scale Art: a bibliography, directory of artists, and index of reproductions. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1984. N6494.E27 H3

Higuchi, Shoichiro. Barcelona, Environmental Art: Urban Design and Artwork. Tokyo: Kashiwashobo, 1993. NA9224.B3 H53

Kaprow, Allan. Assemblage, Environments and Happenings. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1966. N3203.K3

Kastner, Jeffrey, Ed. Land and Environment Art. London: Phaidon Press, 1998. N6494.E27 L36

Korp, Maureen. Sacred Art of the Earth: ancient and contemporary earthworks. New York: Continuum, 1997. N6496.E27 K67

Kultermann, Udo. The New Sculpture: environments and assemblages. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1968. NB198.K813

Lee, Pamela M. Object to be Destroyed: the work of Gordon Matta-Clark. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. N6537.M3947 L44

Long, Richard. From Time to Time. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1997. N6797.L65 A4

Malpas, William. Richard Long in Close-up. Maidstone: Crescent Moon, 2003. N6797.L65 M35

Nash, David. David Nash: forms into time. London: Academy Editions, 1996. NB497.N37

Oakes, Baile. Sculpting with the Environment: a natural dialogue. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995. GE170.O25

Prigann, Herman. Ecological Aesthetics: art in environmental design: theory and practice. Basel: Birkhauser, 2004. SB472.E25

Sonfist, Alan, Ed. Art in the Land: a critical anthology of environmental art. New York: Dutton, 1983. N6494.E27 A7

Tiberghien, Gilles A. Land Art. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995. N6494.E27 T53

Weilacher, Udo. Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art. Basel: Birkhauser, 1996. SB472.W5513