Walter De Maria: Thoughts from the Lightning Field

by Lord Kenneth Baker

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"The Lightning Field" (1977), by the American sculptor Walter De Maria, is recognized internationally as one of the late-twentieth century's most profound works of American art. The piece is located in a remote and rugged area of southwestern New Mexico's high desert and is composed of 400 stainless steel poles installed in a grid measuring one mile (east-west) by one kilometer (north-south). The poles average some twenty feet in height and are installed so that the tops form a level plane, which, according to De Maria, could theoretically 'support an imaginary sheet of glass'. Art critic Kenneth Baker began...Read more
  • ISBN10 0520252543
  • ISBN13 9780520252547
  • Publish Date 2 April 2007
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language English