Uncommon ground
Subtitle: land art in Britain 1966-1979
By: [curated by Nicholas Alfrey, Dr. Joy Sleeman, Ben Tuffnell]
Contributors: Tufnell, Ben, curator; Southampton Art Gallery; National Museum of Wales; Mead Gallery; Longside Gallery; Southbank Centre
Publisher: Hayward Publishing [in association with] Southbank Centre
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781853323140
Subjects: Conceptual art; Exhibitions; Earthworks (Art); Environment (Art); Nature in art
Description: Uncommon Ground proposes a new reading of British art between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, placing landscape and nature at the heart of the emerging avant-garde movements of the period. During a time of seismic cultural and political change, artists on both sides of the Atlantic turned away from the enclosed space of the gallery and went out into the landscape. Encompassing sculpture, performance, photography, film, Minimalism and Conceptual art--particularly the latter--the wide-ranging practices represented in this book engage with the once-derided and seemingly exhausted genre of landscape. Uncommon Ground includes works by Andy Goldsworthy, Anthony McCall, Antony Gormley, Barry Flanagan, Boyle Family, Bruce McLean, David Lamelas, David Nash, David Tremlett, Derek Jarman, Garry Fabian Miller, Hamish Fulton, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jan Dibbets, John Hilliard, John Latham, Keith Arnatt, Richard Long, Roelof Louw, Roger Ackling, Roger Palmer, Susan Hiller, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Tony Cragg.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Southampton City Art Gallery May 10-Aug. 3, 2013; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Sept. 28, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Jan. 18-Mar. 8, 2014; and Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Apr. 5-June 15, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Caroline Douglas; title: Introduction / Nicholas Alfrey, Joy Sleeman, Ben Tufnell; title: Artists. Roger Ackling ; Keith Arnatt ; Boyle Family ; Thomas Joshua Cooper ; Tony Cragg ; Jan Dibbets ; Ian Hamilton Finlay ; Barry Flanagan ; Hamish Fulton ; Andy Goldsworthy ; Antony Gormley ; Susan Hiller ; John Hilliard ; Derek Jarman ; David Lamelas ; John Latham ; Richard Long ; Roelof Louw ; Anthony Mccall ; Bruce Mclean ; Garry Fabian Miller ; David Nash ; Roger Palmer ; David Tremlett; title: Themes and Contexts. Prehistory ; Environment ; Back To The Land ; Access To The Land ; Moon Landings ; Romanticism ; Art Schools; title: Landscapes and Environments. Parks And Commons ; Sculpture Parks ; Gardens ; Streams, Rivers And Estuaries ; Uplands ; Industrial And Working Landscapes; title: Processes and Materials. Excavation ; Colour ; Walking ; Mirrors ; Filming And Transmission ; Esoteric And New Age Ideas ; Cultivation ; Music and Sound; title: Exhibitions and Publications. International Terms For Land Art ; The Arts Council ; The British Council ; Commerical Galleries ; Public Galleries ; British Art Magazines ; Artists' Books And Small Presses.