Land Art no es cualquier escultura al aire libre. Es un movimiento casi genuinamente americano. Sus artistas se hicieron eco de los nuevos conceptos espacio-temporales divulgados por la ciencia ficción con motivo de los primeros viajes espaciales a la Luna. Nacido en un contexto político conservador, este movimiento utilizó la naturaleza como un escenario artístico donde debatir los movimientos sociales a finales de los años sesenta.

“A central focus of Reynolds’s analysis is Smithson’s Fascination with the blind spots at the center of established ways of seeing and thinking about culture. For Smithson, New Jersey was such a blind spot, and he returned the again and again – alone and with fellow artist -- to make art that, through its location alone, undermined assumptions about what and, more important, where, art should be. For those who guarded the integrity of the established art world, New Jersey was “elsewhere”; but for Smithson, “elsewheres” were the defining, if opten forgotten, locations on the map of contemporary culture.” -- Cubierta posterior