The new earthwork : art, action, agency / edited by Twylene Moyer and Glenn Harper.

"A collection of essays on individual artists drawn from Sculpture magazine."

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Twylene Moyer -- Introduction: Down and dirty / Lucy R. Lippard -- Richard Long's Line: dissolving aesthetics into ethics / Dieter Roelstraete -- Forms behaving in time: a conversation with David Nash / Ina Cole -- Alfio Bonanno: one with nature / Twylene Moyer -- Ice in the whirlwind: Chris Drury's desert journey from Antarctica to Nevada / Oliver Lowenstein -- Andy Goldsworthy: restoring the senses / Twylene Moyer -- Eco-logic (1990) / Eleanor Heartney -- Breaking ground: Alan Sonfist, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, Mel Chin, Michele Oka Doner, Jody Pinto, and Aviva Rahmani (1991) / Jude Schwendenwien -- Environment, audience, and public art in the new world (order) (2000) / Mara Adamitz Scrupe -- Public art ecology: from restoration to social intervention / Amy Lipton and Patricia Watts -- Reinvigorating nature and public art: a conversation with Alan Sonfist / John K. Grande -- Agnes Denes: sculptural and environmental conceptualism / Ricardo D. Barreto -- Nature redux: Nancy Holt and the '90s reclamation revival / Joan Marter -- Herman Prigann and the unfinished ecology of sculpture / Paula Llull -- Acid mine drainage and art: art, history, and science in rural Pennsylvania / Virginia Maksymowicz -- Stacy Levy: understanding nature as it happens / Kathy Bruce -- Artists confronting problems: a conversation with Michael Singer / John K. Grande -- Buster Simpson: greening public art / Twylene Moyer -- Working by any means necessary: a conversation with Mel Chin / Jeffry Cudlin -- Art in the public interest: a conversation with Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison / Jane Ingram Allen -- Poetry in the mundane: a conversation with Mags Harries and Lajos Héder / Marty Carlock -- Tim Collins and Reiko Goto: art has everything to do with it / Glenn Harper -- Visualizing the water cycle: Buster Simpson, Jann Rosen-Queralt, and Ellen Sollod at Brightwater Treatment System / Susan Platt -- Liquidating tradition: contemporary fountains / Patricia C. Phillips -- Keeper of water: a conversation with Betsy Damon / Terri Cohn -- Art and water for the future: a conversation with Ichi Ikeda / John K. Grande -- The theater of flow: a conversation with Lorna Jordan / Suzanne Beal -- The planet according to Maya Lin: What is missing? and Confluence project / Susan Platt -- Brandon Ballengée: deviant histories / Glenn Harper -- Suspended in time: a conversation with Yolanda Gutiérrez / John K. Grande -- Trans-species art: a conversation with Lynne Hull / Robert Preece -- Equal opportunity housing / Elizabeth Lynch -- Presidio habitats: a model art and wildlife collaboration / Maria Porges -- Fritz Haeg's alternative possibilities / Marty Carlock -- Bob Bingham: building environment / Glenn Harper -- Plant art: is there room to grow? / Brooke Kamin Rapaport -- Mara Adamitz Scrupe: how does your garden grow? / Christa Forster -- Vaughn Bell: committing to ownership / Twylene Moyer -- Mechanical botanical: a conversation with Doug Buis / John K. Grande -- The culture of nature: a conversation with Mark Dion / Julie Courtney -- Center for land use interpretation: learning from the cultural landscape / Glenn Harper -- Nothing is more or less alive: a conversation with Eduardo Kac / Carrie Paterson -- We are the landscape: a conversation with Steven Siegel / John K. Grande -- The art of activism: a conversation with Barbara Hashimoto / Collette Chattopadhyay -- Bob Johnson: putting trash in its place / Twylene Moyer -- Environmental incentives for public art / Twylene Moyer -- Off the grid: self-powering sculpture / Elizabeth Lynch -- Generating energy in time and space: a conversation with Ned Kahn / L.P. Streitfeld -- Social sculpture: the nexus of human action and ecological principles / Patricia C. Phillips -- Piero Gilardi and Parco Arte Vivente: generating living art / Twylene Moyer -- Mary Mattingly: planning for survival / Elizabeth Lynch -- Futurefarmers: tradition telling truth to power / Twylene Moyer -- Art, environment, and politics: a conversation with PLATFORM / Terry Cohn -- Christy Rupp: daylighting dirty secrets / Twylene Moyer -- The Yes Men/Yes Lab: lying to tell the truth / Twylene Moyer -- 51 declarations for the future -- a manifesto for artists / Frances Whitehead -- Eve Andrée Laramée: revealing what no one wants to see / Twylene Moyer -- Making the invisible visible: a conversation with Andrea Polli / Polly Ullrich -- The living: responsive structures for dynamic environments / Elizabeth Lynch -- Marjetica Potrč: the art of sustainable self-sufficiency / Twylene Moyer -- Modest actions and big impacts: a conversation with Mary Miss / Harriet F. Senie -- Platforms for participation: a conversation with Natalie Jeremijenko / Jennifer McGregor.

For more than 40 years, sculptors have been at the forefront of environmental and ecological/social innovation, making works that treat the earth as creative partner rather than resource and raw material. The new earthwork, which is currently at the leading edge of sculptural practice, means art for the future of humanity and the planet; it means a new approach to aesthetics and the role of art in our lives; it means a sustainable and vital artistic practice that not only solves problems but dares to ask questions and seek answers across disciplinary boundaries. Working in the land to solve agricultural, habitat, and water problems; using new materials and technologies; employing, and sometimes generating, alternative energy sources; taking action and educating about recycling, frontier biology, and genetic engineering, these artists demonstrate how art can open people's eyes, drive change, and envision more than one possible future.