Word: earthworks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interested in geological shapes," she says, wryly adding that "if you're born in Brooklyn, you have to invent some kind of landscape for yourself." Her latest projects have moved into an area explored by only a few other American sculptors, like Richard Serra: neither earthwork nor freestanding construction, but midway between the two-steel plates embedded into planes and strips of earth. The first of these immense environmental pieces was her 280-ft. Land Canal and Hillside built in Dallas in 1971: a string of triangular steel forms down the dividing strip of a highway, rising and falling...
Maze of Grass. Apart, that is, from earthwork artists. Unfortunately, the Newport show is short on earthworks -simply because land there costs too much. There is one piece by Richard Fleischner, in the grounds of Chateau-sur-Mer, that shows exactly the kind of unpretentious but intelligent relation that an earthwork can have to its environment: an undulating meander maze, a barely noticeable ripple on the lawn, covered with sod grass. It is low-key and perfectly appropriate in its site, harking back to a time when stately homes had garden labyrinths as a matter of course...
...ground. There is more than a little glibness in the notion, because it embodies the peculiarly American assumption that any problem is amenable to technological solution. Even so, one of the hardest-hit aerospace giants-Seattle's Boeing Co.-is proving that there is potential profit in earthwork...
Striking Glimpse. The sudden interest in earthwork at Boeing has hardly taken the company out of the skies. On the contrary, Boeing engineers are producing ever more spectacular aircraft designs, including one for a twelve-engine "brute lifter" three times the size of the 747 jet that could haul, for example, 8,000 bbl. of crude petroleum. Recent successes in aerospace sales accounted for almost all of the company's nine-month earnings of $18.2 million this year, up nearly $1,000,000 over the same period in 1970. But Boeing's new outlook may well provide...