It's not a research yet, just an observation. While The Whole Earth Catalog promotes "back to nature" approach, the contemporary to that era art, even being called land art or environmental art, took a different turn. Monumental projects, such as Spiral Jetty, were huge interventions, demonstrating human power over the nature. The scale of some art works was comparable to the scale of big industrial developments, also contributing to the landscape change. I'm curious what motivated the artists to perform those ambitious projects, how did it match the "back to nature" trend, how those ideas developed into the contemporary art practice, and how it was similar or different to the industrial landscape projects of that time.
Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson, 1970
Lightning Field by Walter De Maria, 1977
Surrounded Islands by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1983
Roden Crater by James Turrell, work in process since 1977
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