Land Art and the Moon Landing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21157586 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joy Sleeman (UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 299-328 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470412909347669 |
| OpenAlex | W2119681714 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Land art and NASA’s Apollo project share an historical moment. In the period of Apollo missions 1 to 17, between January 1967 and December 1972, most of the key works and exhibitions that have come to be identified as the founding instances of earth, earthworks or land art happened. Despite vast differences of scale and audience, 40 years ago both the moon and land art became new objects broadcast on television. This article offers an oblique view of land art from a Eurocentric and British perspective, exploring contingent relationships rather than obvious ones and prioritizing works that usually feature on the peripheries of standard accounts, often with a more ‘domestic’ or quotidian scale and reference than the oft-repeated monumental and iconic works.The author considers a range of issues — including colour, materiality, temporality, place, space, geography — and contexts in which the moon, moon landing and land art were caught back in 1969 and through which they might be recaptured meaningfully in the present
Aesthetics · Apollo · Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Exhibition · Geography · Temporality · Visual arts · History · Polar Research and Ecology · Space exploration and regulation · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2019 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |