Michael Heizer is a contemporary landscaper specializing in large-scale sculptures and earth art (or land art).

Up close it is placidly elegant; a Faberge egg of earth art.

Much of what is called "land art" or "earth art" could also be termed environmental sculpture under this definition.

City (artwork), a 1972 piece of earth art by Michael Heizer located in Nevada, U.S.

But they bring the possibilities of earth art to New York at a time when many of its sculptors are searching for perspective and air.

He claimed, "the best sites for 'earth art' are sites that have been disrupted by industry, reckless urbanization, or nature's own devastation."

Chinese art also has a history of earth art that reveals the depth of Chinese feeling for words.

"I'd never heard about anything like earth art before."

-- to the earth art thou not forever dead?

Georgia Papageorge (born 1941) is a South African installation artist active in the field of earth art.