DOI

10.5325/jspecphil.38.1.0047

Abstract

This article attempts to situate land art in the deserts of the US Southwest in terms of the works’ relation to and rupture with more traditional genres (seventeenth to twentieth centuries) of parks, gardens, and landscape architecture. It argues that the earlier works provide implicit answers to questions concerning Earth’s meaning and offer models of flourishing habitation. In contrast, the more recent works, all constructed in the era of the great acceleration (the Anthropocene), pose questions having to do with new challenges posed by climate change and the devastation of the Earth.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-10-2024

Publisher Statement

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Copyright © 2024 by The Pennsylvania State University. All rights reserved.

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