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Abstract
Land art requires careful evaluation when assessing its aesthetic and ethical value. Critics of land art charge that it is unethical in that it uses nature without such use being justified by some future good. Other critics charge that land art harms nature aesthetically. In this essay, the author canvasses these charges and argues that some land art is ethically and aesthetically defensible, and that some has great and rare potential in both realms.
Acknowledgements
A version of this essay was presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The author wishes to thank all those who attended the session for their comments and suggestions. Special thanks are due to Emily Brady, Allen Carlson, Sherri Irvin, and Eric Johnson, who read and commented on earlier versions of this essay.
Notes
Note
1 I am greatly indebted to Jim Anderson at University of Wisconsin–Madison for this notion.