Land and environmental art

BRIAN WALLIS is Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York. He has taught critical theory at Yale University and was McCracken Fellow at New York University. Wallis has authored and edited numerous books on contemporary culture, among them Art After Modernism (New Museum/David Godine, 1984). Blasted Allegories (New Museum/MIT Press, 1986) and Constructing Masculinity (Routledge, 1995). Wallis was formerly senior editor at Art in America and a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. New York, where he organized several major exhibitions including a Hans Haacke retrospective in 1986. He has contributed to numerous periodicals, including Artforum. Art in America, Aperture, Washington Post, New York Times, Village Voice.

JEFFREY KASTNER is a New York-based critic and specialist in modern and contemporary art. Senior editor of Cabinet magazine, he was formerly a senior editor of ART news in New York, editor of Public Art Review in Minneapolis and a contributing editor of Art Monthly in London. As well as lecturing on art in America and Europe. Kastner has contributed reviews and essays on contemporary art and popular culture for numerous magazines, including Artforum, Art & Design, frieze and Flash Art. His selection of works and documents defining the principal tendencies of Land and Environmental Art is organized thematically, and represents an encyclopaedic overview of the most significant practitioners, critics and issues of the movement.