An involving and exciting inside look at some of the most middle-of-nowhere outdoors art ever made, “Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art” is a brief 72-minute documentary that covers a lot of territory, both literally and figuratively. Though visitors to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be familiar with Michael Heizer’s outdoor “Levitated Mass,” not all of them will be able to place the artist and his work into the movement that nurtured him as confidently as this film does. As director James Crump informs us at the start, land art began in the mid-1960s with a radical idea that bubbled up from a group of artists and theoreticians living in hermetic Manhattan. These men — and initially they were almost all men — dreamed a dream of art on a monumental scale, art that would be too big to fit into the puny walls of galleries.Read more on NewsOK.com
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