Walter De Maria: The Object, the Action, the Aesthetic Feeling

This landmark monograph
is the first comprehensive survey of Walter De Maria’s exceptionally diverse and
visionary art practice, providing an in-depth look at more than 200 works and
presenting the first detailed chronology ever published.

Although best known as a creator of seminal works
of Land art, Walter De Maria also maintained an extensive and highly original
practice as a sculptor, painter, draftsman, writer, filmmaker, and composer. This
expansive publication presents more than 200 works created or envisioned by
the artist from 1960 until his death in 2013. Each work is fully illustrated
and accompanied by detailed text entries written by Elizabeth and Michael
Childress, supplemented by archival images, many of which have never been published
before.

Essays by Michael Govan, Christine Mehring,
and Lars Nittve provide detailed overviews and analyses of the early, middle,
and later periods of De Maria’s production. The monograph also includes an
introduction by Donna De Salvo; the first detailed, thoroughly documented,
and illustrated chronology of De Maria’s life and work, written by Dagny
Corcoran; and an exhibition history and bibliography.