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1 online resource (1 video file (ca. 72 min.)) : sd., col
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Directed by James Crump
Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Germano Celant, Paula Cooper, Gianfranco Gorgoni, Pamela Sharp, Robert Smithson, Harald Szeemann, Lawrence Weiner, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Virginia Dwan, Dennis Oppenheim, Willoughby Sharp, Charles Ross, Walter De Maria
Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s when a cadre of renegade New York artists sought to transcend the limitations of painting and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest. Today these works remain impressive not only for the sheer audacity of their makers but also for their out-sized ambitions to break free from traditional norms. The film casts these artists in a heroic light, which is exactly how they saw themselves. Iconoclasts who changed the landscape of art forever, these revolutionary, antagonistic creatives risked their careers on radical artistic change and experimentation, and took on the establishment to produce art on their own terms
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Mode of access: World Wide Web