Unfinished Earthworks and Their Institutional Ecologies: A Status Report on Roden Crater, City, and Star Axis

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dc.contributor.advisorScott, Emily
dc.contributor.authorCurry, Casey
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-18T19:26:43Z
dc.date.available2019-09-18T19:26:43Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-18
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the institutional and financial histories of James Turrell’s Roden Crater (1974-ongoing), Michael Heizer’s City (1972-ongoing), and Charles Ross’s Star Axis (1971-ongoing). It frames these works as second wave earthworks, or those deployed after the first wave of earthworks in1969 and 1970, which nonetheless percolated from a similar art historical context. It mines published accounts of these projects and recently filed 990 forms to construct financial and institutional narratives that illustrate how these artists capitalize on the social and economic motivations of contemporary art patrons, and simultaneously, how patrons employ these artworks and their institutional structures to advance their own social and economic goals. By reframing these projects through an institutional lens and incorporating information from nonprofit financial documents, this study leverages the history of these projects to extend the history of earthworks and offer an entry point into the history and development of large-scale, contemporary arts funding.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/24912
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectArt Institutionsen_US
dc.subjectCharles Rossen_US
dc.subjectEarthworksen_US
dc.subjectJames Turrellen_US
dc.subjectMichael Heizeren_US
dc.subjectNonprofit Organizationsen_US
dc.titleUnfinished Earthworks and Their Institutional Ecologies: A Status Report on Roden Crater, City, and Star Axis
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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