Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-79 - Softcover

This unique publication proposes a new reading of British art between the mid-1960s and early-1980s, placing landscape and nature at the heart of the emerging and avant garde artistic movements of the period. During a time of seismic cultural and political change, artists on both sides of the Atlantic turned away from the enclosed space of the gallery and went out into the landscape - in Britain, in particular, the result was a revolutionary new form of art. Encompassing sculpture, performance, photography, film, Minimalism and Conceptual art - particularly the latter - the wide-ranging practices represented in this book engage with the once derided and seemingly exhausted genre of landscape. Including some of the most vital artists of the latter part of the twentieth century, including Anthony Gormley, Gilbert & George, Derek Jarman and Richard Long, this richly illustrated source book explores some of the key figures and themes of 'a new art'. List of artists: Roger Ackling; Keith Arnatt; Boyle Family; Thomas Joshua Cooper; Tony Cragg; Jan Dibbets; Barry Flanagan; Hamish Fulton; Gilbert & George; Andy Goldsworthy; Antony Gormley; Ian Hamilton Finlay; Susan Hiller; John Hilliard; Joan Hills; Derek Jarman; David Lamelas; John Latham; Richard Long; Roelof Louw; Anthony McCall; Bruce McLean; Garry Fabian Miller; David Nash; Roger Palmer; David Tremlett.