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Shifting the Earth's Landscape to Create Conceptual Art

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Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, 1970

Land Art as a concept is nothing new – one only has to think of the Neolithic monument of Stonehenge and the numerous chalk horses carved into hillsides across the British countryside, or the two-thousand-year-old Nazca Lines in Peru that depict monkeys and hummingbirds 200 metres wide, labouriously dug into the desert rock, to realise that man has had a long affinity with leaving a mark on the surface of the planet. The practice of moving natural resources to create…

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