page_title: Sculpture of the United States
section_title: Site-specific movement
hierarchical_section_title: Sculpture of the United States / Twentieth century / Site-specific movement
caption_attribution_description: English: Spiral Jetty from atop Rozel Point, in mid-April 2005. עברית: צילום של "מזח לוליני" מאת רוברט סמיתסון en:Category:Images of three-dimensional art
context_page_description: The history of sculpture in the United States begins in the 1600s "with the modest efforts of craftsmen who adorned gravestones, Bible boxes, and various utilitarian objects with simple low-relief decorations." American sculpture in its many forms, genres and guises has continuously contributed to the cultural landscape of world art into the 21st century.
context_section_description: Site specific and environmental art works are represented by artists: Donald Judd, Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Serra, Robert Irwin, George Rickey, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude led contemporary abstract sculpture in new directions. Artists created environmental sculpture on expansive sites in the 'land art in the American West' group of projects. These land art or 'earth art' environmental scale sculpture works exemplified by artists such as Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, James Turrell (Roden Crater) and others
  The land art (earth art) environmental scale sculpture works by Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, James Turrell and others.
caption: Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson from atop Rozel Point, in mid-April 2005
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