A Line Made by Walking

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A Line Made by Walking is a seminal 1967 land art piece by British artist Richard Long, created by repeatedly walking a straight path through a field to leave a temporary trace in the landscape.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf conceptual artwork
land art work
artisticFocus process over permanent object
relationship between body and landscape
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Richard Long NERFINISHED
depicts field
straight line in grass
describedAs seminal work in land art history
documentedAs photographic image plus caption
genre conceptual art
land art
hasEffect temporary trace in the landscape
hasPhotographicDocumentation black-and-white photograph
hasTitleLanguage English
hasWorkType minimal gesture in landscape
site-specific intervention
inception 1967
influenced subsequent land art practices
walking art
languageOfWork none
locationOfCreation England NERFINISHED
medium action in landscape
performance
photograph
methodOfCreation repeated walking along a straight path
movement Conceptual art movement
Land art movement
notableFor early example of land art
ephemeral intervention in nature
use of walking as artistic process
partOf Richard Long’s early works
subjectOf art historical analysis
exhibition catalogues
temporalNature ephemeral

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Richard Long notableWork A Line Made by Walking