Die letzte Freiheit. The Final Freedom. Von den Pionieren der Land-Art der 1960er Jahre bis zur Natur im Cyberspace. From the Pioneers of Land Art in the 1960s to Nature in Cyberspace

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, this book traces the fascinating development of "Land Art" from the 1960s up to nowadays, including artists mainly from the USA and Europe, with one exception from China: Ai Weiwei.
Nature was altered through nature. The almost scientific approach of the first, primarily American "Land Art"- artists - like Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt or Dennis Oppenheim - was replaced more and more by mostly aesthetic interventions and finally substituted by Andy Goldsworthy's and David Nash's highly sensitive compositions totally inspired by nature. The most recent approaches - the artificial world of cyberspace - will be incorporated in the form of a concluding glimpse ahead.
The history of these developments goes back nearly fifty years, and in these decades numerous changes in terms of positions, goals, and the use of materials have taken place. The exhibition, accompanied by this book, aims to an understanding of these historical positions with the aid of sketches, artefacts, documents, models, photographs, and film material, and includes 120 objects from important collections (Museum Ludwig, Köln, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Hamburger Bahnhof, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Fotomuseum Winterthur,...).
At the same time, it faces the reader with open questions about how to deal with nature in a preserving and responsible way.