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Directors' Foreword 7
Acknowledgments 11
ENDS OF THE EARTH AND BACK Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon
17
WILLOUGHBY SHARP ON THE "EARTH ART" EXHIBITION AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA,
NEW YORK, 1969
37
ALONG THE WAY TO LAND ART Jane McFadden
43
INTERVIEW WITH SETH SIEGELAUB 61
DESERT ENDS Emily Eliza Scott
67
VIRGINIA DWAN ON CHANGING BOUNDARIES
93
LAND ART'S MULTIPLE SITES
Tom Holert
97
INTERVIEW WITH GERMANO CELANT 123
EARTH BENEATH DETROIT Julian Myers
129
YONA FISCHER ON BARRIERS AND CONNECTIONS
157
THE CASE OF MUNICH, 1968-1972 Julienne Lorz
161
LASZLO GLOZER ON PURE DIRT, PURE EARTH, PURE LAND: A EUROPEAN
PERSPECTIVE ON THE BEGINNINGS OF LAND ART
173
Annotated Checklist of the Exhibition 185
Annotated Chronology
of Group Exhibitions and Events 249
Selected Bibliography 255
COVER
Edward Ruscha, Patrick Blackwell,
and Mason Williams, Royal Road Test,
1967, detail
BACK COVER
Jean Dry Lake, Nevada, March 21, 1962,
near the site of Jean Tinguely's Study for
an End of the World, No. 2, 1962
FRONTISPIECE
First view of Earth from the moon,
August 23, 1966, transmitted to Earth
by the United States Lunar Orbiter I and
received at the NASA tracking station at
Robledo De Chavela near Madrid, Spain
ABOVE
Robert Kinmont, 8 Natural Handstands, 1969/2009, detail
MANAGING EDITOR
Elizabeth Hamilton
EDITOR
Michelle Piranio
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Jeanne Dreskin
DESIGNERS
This publication accompanies the exhibition
organized by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon
and presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA,
May 27-August 20, 2012, and the Haus der Kunst, Munich,
October 12, 2012-January 20, 2013
Major support is provided by Barbara Kruger.
The exhibition is also made possible by Kathi and Gary Cypres.
Additional support is provided by Suzanne and David Johnson,
The Kwon Family Foundation, and John Morace and Tom Kennedy.
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Library of Congress Catalogingin-Publication Data
Ends of the earth : land art to 1974 I organized by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon
Kwon. First [edition].
p. cm
This publication accompanies the
exhibition "Ends of the Earth: Land Art
to 1974," organized by Philipp Kaiser
and Miwon Kwon and presented at The
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary
at MOCA, 27 May-20 August 2012.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-3-7913-5194-0 (hardback)
1. Earthworks (Art)-Exhibitions.
I. Kaiser, Philipp, 1972- 11. Kwon,
Miwon. Ill. Museum of Contemporary
Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
N6494.E27E53 2012
709.04'07607479494-dc23
ORGANIZED BY PHILIPP KAISER AND MIWON KWON
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES HAUS DER KUNST, MUNICH
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