Agnes Denes
| Agnes Denes | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1931 Budapest |
| Field | Land Art |
| Movement | Conceptual Art |
| Works | Wheatfield, Tree Mountain |
Agnes Denes is an American Land Art artist. Born in Budapest in 1931, her family moved to Stockholm, then New York City.[1] Denes has been a pioneer of both the environmental art movement and Conceptual art.
For "Wheatfield", her best known land art project, she planted a two-acre field of wheat in a vacant lot in downtown Manhattan. The purpose of the project was to comment on "human values and misplaced priorities". Grain harvested from "Wheatfield" then traveled to 28 cities worldwide in "The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger" and was symbolically planted around the globe. Another notable project is "Tree Mountain-A Living Time Capsule", a massive earthwork and reclamation project that reaches four hundred years into the future to benefit future generations with a meaningful legacy.
Agnes Denes has had over 300 solo and group exhibitions on four continents, including Documenta VI in Kassel (1977), three Venice Biennales (1978, 1980,2001) and "Master of Drawing" Invitational at the Kunsthalle in N�rnberg (1982). She has shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum in New York. In l992 she had a major retrospective at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, for which five art historians contributed catalogue essays.
In addition to her art work, Agnes Denes also has written four books. She holds a doctorate in fine arts.
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[edit] Selected works
- Rice/Tree/Burial 1968, Eco-Logic, Sullivan County, New York; re-created 1977 at Artpark [2]
- Wheatfield, a Confrontation 1982 Manhattan, Battery Park City landfill [3][4]
- A Forest for Australia reforestation of Red Gum, She Oak, and Paperbark trees in Melbourne Australia 1998 [6][7]
- Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie masterplan, 2000
[edit] Publications
- The Human Argument Spring Publications, Putnam, Connecticut, 2008. ISBN 978-0-88214-569-3
[edit] Awards and honors
- 1997 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome [8]
- Watson Transdisciplinary Art Award, Carnegie Mellon University 1999
[edit] Biographies
[edit] References
- ^ McEvillery, Thomas (2004). "Philosophy in the land". Art in America (November). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_10_92/ai_n7576776. Retrieved 2008-10-25.[dead link]
- ^ Boettger, Suzaan (2008). "Excavating Land Art by Women in the 1970s". Sculpture 27 (November): 38–45.
- ^ "Wheatfield". http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-63.html. Retrieved 2008-10-23.
- ^ Glueck, Grace (1982-06-11). "A Critic's Guide to the Outdoor Sculpture Shows". New York Times (June 11). http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E6DE163BF932A25755C0A964948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
- ^ "Agnes Denes". http://www.asci.org/artikel921.html. Retrieved 2008-10-23.
- ^ Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces
- ^ Denes, Agnes. "My work as an environmental artist". http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/iiaa/io1998/denes2.html. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
- ^ "Winners of the Rome Prize for Work and Study Abroad". New York Times (April 19). 1997-04-19. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E2DE1E3FF93AA25757C0A961958260&scp=11&sq=%22Agnes%20Denes%22&st=cse. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
[edit] See also
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