Web links for the Map of Ideas and other useful links

Further information:
Houghton Hall
www.houghtonhall.com/htmlfiles/1024index.htm

Eighteenth Century Landscape Design
www.apl.ncl.ac.uk/coursework/IThompson/Informal_2.htm
www.gardenvisit.com/landscape/architecture/14.4-english-theory.htm

Stephen Cox
www.ramagazine.org.uk/index.php?pid=55
www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/news/sculpture/99cox.html

James Turrell
www.rodencrater.org/
www.pbs.org/art21/artists/turrell/clip1.html

Richard Long
www.richardlong.org/
Richard Long - Walking in Circles Pub. Thames and Hudson ISBN 0-500-27650-1

Liz McGowan – artist, workshop leader and principal author of this teachers pack
www.lizmcgowan.com

Artists working directly with the land:
Hamish Fulton – land artist – walking is central to his practice
www.hamish-fulton.com/index.htm

Chris Drury – land artist – walking is a part of his practice
www.chrisdrury.co.uk/

Agnes Denes – artist involved in large scale ecological regeneration – here with tree planting
greenmuseum.org/content/artist_content/ct_id-198__artist_id-63.html

Mierle Laderman Ukeles – artist involved in ecological regeneration of landfill sites
www.wavehill.org/arts/mierle_laderman_ukeles.html

Walter De Maria – another artist working with light – lightning in this case
www.lightningfield.org/

Photographs of work by US land artists:
Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, two massive trenches cut into the Nevada desert Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty
Work by Christo who uses huge areas of material to create fences and to wrap whole buildings.
www.marin.cc.ca.us/art107/EarthworksStudyImages.htm

Artists working in a range of media with landscape and light
Andreas Gursky – artist using photography to portray contemporary landscapes and cityscapes
www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/gursky/
www.amazon.com/gp/reader/3823854704/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-8811846-7999028 - reader-link

Jeff Wall – artist who sets up and photographs carefully orchestrated tableaux of social and political significance
www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/rooms/room12.shtm
www.arttowermito.or.jp/art/jeffwall.html

The Saatchi Gallery – a good source of contemporary painters of landscapes including Julian Opie who paints “non-spaces” such as motorways
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/gallery/intro.htm

Bridget Riley – painter using colour abstracted from the landscape
www.diabeacon.org/exhibs/riley/reconnaissance/

Dan Flavin – Artist working with light – this time artificial, fluorescent light
www.diacenter.org/ltproj/flavbrid/

Other useful links
Photographs of Zen dry gardens
www.phototravels.net/kyoto/zen-gardens-index.html

Nazca lines – An ancient assortment of straight parallel and intersecting lines and symbols of birds and beasts in the Peruvian desert – all etched on a giant scale that can only be appreciated from the sky
www.unmuseum.org/nazca.htm

Indian stone carving – inspiration for Stephen Cox
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Archit/Mahaba.html

This Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much productive land and water is needed to support your lifestyle
www.earthday.net/Footprint/info.asp