Word: christo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone other than the artist, it acknowledges what art has rarely acknowledged before: its own transience. It is a motley movement dominated more by high adventure-and imagination-than by any single name. Michael Heizer and Walter de Maria dug trenches in sun-parched deserts (they are silting over), Christo wrapped a portion of the Australian coastline in polyurethane (the plastic was removed), Britain's Richard Long imposed a geometric pattern on a field of daisies by plucking the blossoms (as any gardener could predict, new blossoms grew...