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May 7, 1999
Jeffrey Kastner and Brian Wallis, eds. Land and Environmental Art (Themes and Movements) New York: Phaidon, 1997. 304 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (0714835145)
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Among European publishers of books on environmental art, largely American, there seems to be a consensus that the representation of projects encompassing such extensive terrain demands oversize display. The sizes of printed pages, illustrations, and often fonts, are jumbo, sheets are thick, pages in great number, overall, the tomes hefty. Thus Gilles Tiberghien’s Land Art, published by Editions Carres, Paris, in 1993, and in an English translation by Princeton Architectural Press in 1995, measured 12...