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Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
Director - James Crump Educational Interests- American Studies, Art, Biographies/Profiles Institutional DVD Price: $395
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| Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. The film features a cadre of renegade New York artists that sought to transcend the limitations of painting and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest. Today these works remain impressive not only for the sheer audacity of their makers but also for their out-sized ambitions to break free from traditional norms. The film casts these artists in a heroic light, which is exactly how they saw themselves. Iconoclasts who changed the landscape of art forever, these revolutionary, antagonistic creatives risked their careers on radical artistic change and experimentation, and took on the establishment to produce art on their own terms. The film includes rare footage and interviews which unveil the enigmatic lives and careers of storied artists Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty), Walter De Maria (The Lightning Field) and Michael Heizer (Double Negative); a headstrong troika that established the genre. As the film makes clear, in making works that can never be possessed as an object in a gallery, these troublemakers stand in marked contrast to the hyper-speculative contemporary art world of today. Troublemakers features Germano Celant, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Vito Acconci, Virginia Dwan, Charles Ross, Paula Cooper, Willoughby Sharp, Pamela Sharp, Lawrence Weiner, Nancy Holt, Carl Andre, Gianfranco Gorgoni, and Harald Szeemann. "A film that takes its place among the great art documentaries of the past half-century… filled with great moments, large and small… deftly captures the madcap ambition, grandeur and even sublimity of the works these artists created." "A thrilling and revealing look at the creators and myths of land art. Through archive footage and extended interviews, [Troublemakers] masterfully captures the why and how of these sacred terrestrial forms." "Some of the most momentous recent art on Earth was made with earth itself: golden crust from a desert mesa, imposing loads of dark brown dirt, piles of spiraling rocks arranged in a lake. All of those and other terrestrial offerings rank as materials on survey in the new documentary 'Troublemakers,' which presents land art as a phenomenon fit for appreciation on the silver screen." - The Wall Street Journal |
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