In the 1960s the American art world was getting more and more commercialised. But at the same time, there was a rising trend towards environmentalism across the country. And so the land art movement was born when a group of artists wanted to get people out of museums and back into nature that they twisted, shaped and literally played with.

Suzaan Boettger, Author of Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties & Forthcoming Biography of Robert Smithson 00:22

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