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Nancy Holt : photoworks / Nancy Holt ; [editor, Ben Tufnell].

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Haunch of Venison, c2012.Description: 83 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781905620661
  • 1905620667
Other title:
  • Photoworks
Subject(s):
Contents:
Concrete Visions -- Concrete Poem -- Over the Hill -- Down the Hill -- Desire Lines / Douglas Fogle -- Western Graveyards -- Ruin View -- Wistman's Wood -- Trail Markers -- California Sun Signs -- View Through a Sand Dune -- Pine Barrens : Trees -- Pine Barrens : Hoofs -- Pine Barrens : Footprints -- Sunlight in Sun Tunnels -- Light and Shadow Photo-Drawings -- Time Outs -- Capulin Volcano.
Summary: Nancy Holt is one of the leading artists of her generation and a pioneer in site-specific art and film and video work. This exhibition includes over one hundred photographs from 1967 onwards. Nancy Holt was a key member of the group of early land artistis group of artists which included Robert Smithson. The key themes throughout all her projects are memory, perception, time and space. She uses the natural environment as both medium and subject. Photography has always played a central role within her work, both as a way of engaging with the landscape and as a way of documenting site-specific projects. This exhibition includes major photographic projects, including early work such as Concrete Visions, 1967: an important project made on Dartmoor, Trail Markers, 1969; a series of photographs of dilapidated graves in the American west, Western Graveyards; and photographs by the artist of her most famous work, Sun Tunnels, 1973-76 among others.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room HOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 08668

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Haunch of Venison, London, June 7-Aug. 25, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.

Concrete Visions -- Concrete Poem -- Over the Hill -- Down the Hill -- Desire Lines / Douglas Fogle -- Western Graveyards -- Ruin View -- Wistman's Wood -- Trail Markers -- California Sun Signs -- View Through a Sand Dune -- Pine Barrens : Trees -- Pine Barrens : Hoofs -- Pine Barrens : Footprints -- Sunlight in Sun Tunnels -- Light and Shadow Photo-Drawings -- Time Outs -- Capulin Volcano.

Nancy Holt is one of the leading artists of her generation and a pioneer in site-specific art and film and video work. This exhibition includes over one hundred photographs from 1967 onwards. Nancy Holt was a key member of the group of early land artistis group of artists which included Robert Smithson. The key themes throughout all her projects are memory, perception, time and space. She uses the natural environment as both medium and subject. Photography has always played a central role within her work, both as a way of engaging with the landscape and as a way of documenting site-specific projects. This exhibition includes major photographic projects, including early work such as Concrete Visions, 1967: an important project made on Dartmoor, Trail Markers, 1969; a series of photographs of dilapidated graves in the American west, Western Graveyards; and photographs by the artist of her most famous work, Sun Tunnels, 1973-76 among others.