2012
Haunch of Venison, London
Hardcover
84 pages
287 × 229 mm
Nancy Holt was a member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements. An innovator of site-specific installation and the moving image, Holt recalibrated the limits of art. She expanded the places where art could be found and embraced the new media of her time. Across five decades she asked questions about how we might understand our place in the world, investigating perception, systems, and place. Holt’s rich artistic output spans concrete poetry, audioworks, film and video, photography, slideworks, ephemeral gestures, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, artists’ books, and public sculpture commissions.
[Holt/Smithson Foundation]
Taking inspiration from the Trail Markers series produced on Dartmoor in 1969, the book design borrows the yellow of the painted spots to use throughout the design in the typography and for the endpapers. The cover type is screen-printed in yellow and white with an inset and tipped-in photograph.
Texts by Ben Tufnell and Douglas Fogle.
