Newly available in paperback, this landmark volume is the definitive study of the work of visionary American artist Nancy Holt (1938 2014). Since the late 1960s, Holt's wide-ranging production has included Land art particularly the monumental Sun Tunnels (1973 76) as well as significant projects in sculpture, installation, photography, film, and video. A comprehensive representation of Holt's working process in both word and image, Alena J. Williams's momentous publication illuminates the artist's interest in physical space ...
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Newly available in paperback, this landmark volume is the definitive study of the work of visionary American artist Nancy Holt (1938 2014). Since the late 1960s, Holt's wide-ranging production has included Land art particularly the monumental Sun Tunnels (1973 76) as well as significant projects in sculpture, installation, photography, film, and video. A comprehensive representation of Holt's working process in both word and image, Alena J. Williams's momentous publication illuminates the artist's interest in physical space and reveals how the geographic variety and boundlessness of the American landscape afforded her numerous opportunities to develop large-scale projects beyond the confines of New York City's gallery walls. Contributions by a distinguished group of writers including Pamela M. Lee, Lucy R. Lippard, Ines Schaber, and Matthew Coolidge chart Holt's fascinating trajectory from her initial experiments with sound, light, and industrial materials to major site interventions and environmental sculpture. James Meyer's valuable interview with Holt and Julia Alderson's illustrated chronology expand our knowledge of this groundbreaking artist and the crucial contexts in which she worked. More than twenty original writings by the artist and a rare selection of her concrete poetry, documentary photographs, and preparatory drawings reveal Holt's revolutionary concepts of space, time, optics, and scale.
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Holt, Nancy. Fine in Fine jacket. Catalog from the exhibition of the same name that chronicled the work of Nancy Holt (1938-2014) one of the members of the "Land Art" movement that began in the 1960s and continues to the present. In addition to being married to and collaborating with the artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973), Holt was a contemporary and friend of other artists in that movement including Michael Heizer, Richard Serra, and James Turrell. Inscribed by Holt, who also penned an essay in the catalog, to the previous owner on the verso of the first free endpaper. Breathtaking work over a five-decade career. First Printing. 296 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
