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(Sanat) Land Art, Earthworks or Earth Art is an art movement which emerged in America in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked. Sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather the landscape is the very means of their creation. The works frequently exist in the open, located well away from civilisation, left to change and erosion under natural conditions. Many of the first works, created in the deserts of Nevada, New Mexico, Utah or Arizona were ephemeral in nature and now only exist as video recordings or photographic documents
All operations involved in moving, loosening, depositing, shaping, compacting and stabilising soil and rock
large-scale examples of environmental art, often ephemeral and located in remote locations
Engineering work associated with the movements of soils and materials on a landfill
Any feature, such as a bank, ditch, dyke, or cursus, which is built from the natural surface materials, rather than one which is constructed by artificially modifying (such as carving) the materials See Aerial Photography, Glacis rampart, Henge, Linear earthwork, Shadow-marks
Earthworks are large structures of earth that have been built for defence, especially ones which were built a very long time ago. a large long pile of earth, used in the past to stop attacks