Facts about Earthworks

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   Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field, an earthwork in New Mexico, consists of 400 stainless steel poles arranged in a grid across a remote desert plain.

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   Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, a celebrated earthwork in the Utah desert, aligns with the sunrise and sunset during the summer and winter solstices.

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   Michael Heizer's Double Negative, a major earthwork, involved removing approximately 240,000 tons of rock from the Nevada desert to create two opposing trenches.

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   The earthworks movement emerged in the late 1960s as artists rejected gallery spaces, using landscape itself as their primary medium.

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   Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, one of the most iconic earthworks, was constructed in 1970 on the northeastern shore of Great Salt Lake, Utah.

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