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earthworks: see land art land art or earthworks, art form developed in the late 1960s and early 70s by Robert Smithson , Robert Morris , Michael Heizer, and others, in which the artist employs the elements of nature in situ or rearranges the landscape with earthmoving ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the bank by unseen hands. We have moved forward across his earthworks, across which we have so often vainly attempted to move before, through the debris of his abandoned camps, among the graves of his fallen, into the woods beyond. Great anxiety prevails in West Surrey, and earthworks are being thrown up to check the advance Londonward. |
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