Walter De Maria
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Walter Joseph De Maria was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with minimal art, conceptual
De Maria in 1968
"Seen/Unseen Known/Unknown" at Benesse House, Naoshima, Kagawa prefecture, Japan
The Vertical Earth Kilometer
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The Vertical Earth Kilometer is a permanent art installation created by Walter De Maria in Friedrichsplatz Park in front of the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany. The Vertical Earth Kilometer is a soli
Walter De Maria
…Cormac McCarthy's epilogue in his 1985 novel, Blood Meridian. In the 1960s and 1970s, De Maria created enduring urban works. As complementary pieces, Vertical Earth Kilometer (1977), and The Broken Kilometer (1979), address the idea of unseen or abstracted distance. Vertical Earth Kilometer is a one-kilometer-long brass rod…
The only part of The Vertical Earth Kilometer visible above ground