Title & Author:

Gianfranco Gorgoni : land art photographs / Ann M. Wolfe ; essays by Germano Celant, William L. Fox ; Design, Brad Bartlett.

Publication:

Reno : Nevada Museum of Art ; New York : Monacelli, [2021]

Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 31 x 32 cm

Notes:
"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Gianfranco Gorgoni : land art photographs on view at the Nevada Museum of Art in summer 2021, the exhibition being one of the features for the Museum's triennial Art + Environment Season in 2021." -- Page [13].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / David B. Walker -- Fifty years of desert mischief, Gianfranco Gorgoni : land art photographs / Ann M. Wolfe -- Gianfranco Gorgoni : landing / Germano Celant -- Going to ground : performing land art as a photograph / William L. Fox.

Summary:

For five decades, photographer Gianfranco Gorgoni (1941-2019) built his reputation as the premier documentarian of Land Art in the US and beyond. After leaving Italy, Gorgoni started making portraits of the major artists of the New York scene, including Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Walter De Maria, Carl Andre, and Richard Serra. It was not long before he was traveling with Heizer, Smithson, and De Maria to the American West in the late 1960s to plot the works that would famously break art practice out of the confines of the gallery world. In Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, these artists embarked on major Land Art installations that would redefine contemporary art practice of the era. In many cases, Gorgoni was the only photographer on the ground to document their projects, and his images often serve as the definitive photographic record of the planning and creation of these groundbreaking works. Published to coincide with the first major exhibition of Gorgoni's photographic Land Art images at the Nevada Museum of Art, featuring over fifty of his large-scale photographs, Gianfranco Gorgoni: Land Art Photographs includes an introduction by Ann M. Wolfe, Andrea and John C. Deane Family senior curator and deputy director at the Nevada Museum of Art, an essay by the late art historian and critic Germano Celant, whose contribution here is among the last he wrote before his death in 2020, and William L. Fox, the Peter E. Pool Director of the Center for Art + Environment. Exhibition: Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA (26.06.2021-02.01.2022).

ISBN:

9781580935593
1580935591

Subject:

Gorgoni, Gianfranco Exhibitions.
Gorgoni, Gianfranco
Photography of art Exhibitions.
Earthworks (Art) Exhibitions.
Photographie d'œuvres d'art Expositions.
Land art Expositions.
Earthworks (Art)
Photography of art

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Gorgoni, Gianfranco. Works. Selections.
Wolfe, Ann M., editor.
Celant, Germano, editor.
Fox, William L., 1949- editor.
Bartlett, Brad, book designer.

Gorgoni

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 316949
Call No.: 316949
Copy: 1
Status: Available