Maria Sieh Walter

Walter De Maria 1999 Milano 2000

For Walter De Maria, hurricanes, floods, and sandstorms--natural disasters--are "the highest form of art possible to experience." Through such monumental works as "The Lightening Field," a permanent installation in New Mexico which fuses the natural phenomena of lighting with the artistic process, D...

Walter De Maria: Trilogies (Menil Collection)

American artist Walter De Maria is associated with Minimal, conceptual, installation, and land art. He is best known for The Lightning Field, 1977, a long-term installation in western New Mexico made up of four hundred pointed stainless steel poles arranged in a grid over an area measuring one mile ...

From Conceptualism to Feminism: Lucy Lippard's Numbers Shows 1969-74

Between 1969 and 1974, Lucy Lippard curated four exhibitions of contemporary art, which have become renowned as her “numbers shows.” Each took the population of the city in which it was shown as its title: 557,087 in Seattle, 955,000 in Vancouver, 2,972,453 in Buenos Aires and c. 7,500, which opened...

Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy (Religion and Postmodernism)

“The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by ‘the disenchantment of the world.’” Max Weber’s statement remains a dominant interpretation of the modern condition: the increasing capabilities of knowledge and science have banished mysteries, lea...

Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work

As one of the most innovative artists of the last six decades, Walter De Maria challenged art in profound ways. He is known worldwide for his important sculptures such as Lightning Field, but his contributions to the practices of music, drawing, photography, and film have been largely forgotten. Fea...

Walter De Maria - Sculptures (English and Italian Edition)

2012 Text by Lars Nittve 14 1/4 x 11 inches (36.2 x 27.9 cm); 63 pages; Fully illustrated Designed by Public Address Design, Houston, TX; Printed by Pureprint Group, Uckfield, UK Weight: 2 lbs. 12 oz.

Large Rod Series: Circles/Rectangles