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american west
anxiety
arizona
Author_Erin Hogan
Category=AGA
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contemporary
desert
disorientation
double negative
drunkeness
earthworks
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heat exhaustion
james turrell
juarez
land art
lightning field
marfa
memoir
michael heizer
moab
modernism
nancy holt
nevada
new mexico
nonfiction
photography
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road trip
robert smithson
roden crater
scale
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spiral jetty
sun tunnels
texas
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walter de maria
Product details
- ISBN 9780226348469
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 14 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2009
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. "Spiral Jetta" is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and '80s - Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty", Nancy Holt's "Sun Tunnels", Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field", James Turrell's "Roden Crater", Michael Heizer's "Double Negative", and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some.
Erin Hogan is director of public affairs at the Art Institute of Chicago.
