1. Chapter 10
Site-Specific Art

3. Definition
• Site-Specific art is produced for one
location.
• The content and the meaning are linked
to the site.
• The phrase ‘site-specific art’ started in
the 1960s and 1970s as a blanket
category for art that was created for or
in, a specific location.

4. Types of Site-Specific Art
• There are many types, goals, and styles
of site-specific art including:
– Land and environmental art
– Ephemeral art
– Monuments

5. LAND ART

6. Figure 10.1, p.1987 ROBERT SMITHSON. Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah (1970) Black
Rocks, salt, earth, eater, and algae. L:1,500’; W:15’.

8. Figure 10.3, p.199 ANDY GOLDSWORTHY. Ice Star (12 January 1987). Cibachrome photograph. 76cm x76cm.
Scaur water, Penpoint, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

9. Figure 10.5, p.198 0MARCO EVARISTTI. The Ice Cube Project (2004). Red dye and seawater,
Greenland coast.

10. Figure 10.7, p. 199 WALTER DE MARIA. The Lighting Field (1977). 400 polished stainless steel
poles, each d.5.1(2) x h. 628.7(247.5), total area 1 mile x 1km. Quernado, New Mexico.

11. Figure 10.9, p.203 Ariel view of The Gates in Central Park with Manhattan Skyline.

13. EPHEMERAL ART

14. Figure 10.13, p.205 CAI GUO-QJANG. Transient Rainbow over East River. New York City
(2002).

21. PUBLIC ART

22. Figure 10.21, p.209 ANISH KAPOOR. Cloud Gate. Millennium Park, Chicago.

24. MONUMENTS

25. Figure 10.24, p.209 PETER EISENMAN. Holocaust Memorial, Berlin (2004).

27. Figure 10.28, p.211 MAYA YING LIN. Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C. (1982).
Polished black granite. L:492’.