Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jettais a chronicle of this journey.
Read more
A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, James Turrell's Roden Crater, Michael Heizer's Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some.
Liked Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
