American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.

Susanneh Bieber is Assistant Professor in the School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts and the School of Architecture at Texas A&M University.

List of Figures List of Permissions Acknowledgments - Introduction: Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys: Mary Miss - Constructing A Better World: From the Bauhaus to Postwar America - Twentieth Century Engineering: Donald Judd and Robert Grosvenor - Monuments, Landmarks, and Ruins: Claes Oldenburg and Robert Smithson - Idea as Model: Lawrence Weiner and Gordon Matta-Clark Conclusion Bibliography Index