| Summary: | This paper looks at the way land artists deal with the notions of nature and environment and at how their artworks aim at creating a particular relationship with the land. These artworks shift away from the optical and seek to create a sense of disorientation in order to shake the spectator out of the routines that normally structure his relationship to the environment. In so doing, the works put in question how we control nature, how direction and meaning are inscribed upon the landscape, and what limits pertain to the use of nature. This article aims at looking at Land Art practices not only from the perspective of the foregrounding of the materiality of the art object, but also from a more cultural perspective that connects them to the founding American narrative of space as both the means and object of discovery, encrypted in the American motif of the “frontier”.
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