Alan Sonfist
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| Alan Sonfist | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 |
| Field | Land Art |
| Movement | Environmental Art |
Alan Sonfist is a New York City based American artist most often associated with the Land or Earth Art movement.[1]
He is best known for his "Time Landscape" found on the corner of West Houston Street and LaGuardia Place in New York City's Greenwich Village.[2][3] Proposed in 1965, "Time Landscape" the environmental sculpture took over ten years of careful planning with New York City. It was eventually landmarked by the city. It has often been cited as the first urban forest of its kind. More recently, Sonfist has continued to create artworks within the natural landscape, inaugurating a one acre (4,000 m²) landscape project titled "The Lost Falcon of Westphalia" on Prince Richard's estate outside Cologne, Germany in 2005.
His most recent environmental sculpture 'Birth By Spear' was created in 2010, in Tuscany, Italy.
[edit] Selected publications
- Sonfist, Alan; Becker, Wolfgang; Rosenblum, Robert (2004), Nature, the end of art: environmental landscapes, D.A.P.
[edit] References
- ^ Michael Brenson (13 July 1990), Review/Art; Plaster as a Medium, Not Just an Interim Step, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/13/arts/review-art-plaster-as-a-medium-not-just-an-interim-step.html, retrieved 2011-02-14
- ^ Roberta Smith (11 October 1991), Art in Review, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/11/arts/art-in-review-566391.html, retrieved 2011-02-09
- ^ Stiles, Kristine; Selz, Peter Howard (1996), Theories and documents of contemporary art: a sourcebook of artists' writings, University of California Press, p. 545, ISBN 9780520202511
