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environmental art

American  

noun

  1. artistic works that are planned, often on a grand scale, to surround or to involve the participation of the spectator.


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Etymology

Origin of environmental art

First recorded in 1965–70


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Keira Hart-Mendoza, a 38-year-old artist from Bethesda, said she wanted to create an environmental art exhibit to showcase how much trash people create and its impact on nature.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2019

It was a wrenching four minutes and 33 seconds of environmental art — the earth stopping turning yet the harmony of the spheres unaffected, thus increasing the value of the ground on which we stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

As a relatively emerging niche market, however, sales numbers for environmental art are hard to come by.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2016

Maysles also continued a longtime working relationship with artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, whose process for creating monumental environmental art the Maysles Brothers documented in several films beginning in the 1970s.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2015

Across from the state Capitol in Montpelier, a little ways down the road, she had installed a 12-ton mound of environmental art.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2013

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