Earthworks (novel)

Earthworks is a 1965 dystopian science fiction novel by British science fiction author Brian Aldiss.

Earthworks
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
AuthorBrian Aldiss
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherFaber & Faber
Publication date
1965
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages155

Plot introduction

The novel is set in a world of environmental catastrophe and extreme socio-economic inequality. Outside crowded cities controlled by a police state, a class of wealthy and powerful "Farmers" exploit a rural prison labour population and hunt down subversive "Travellers" who have broken free of social controls.

Land Art

In 1967, the artist Robert Smithson took a copy of Earthworks with him on a trip to the Passaic River in New Jersey (where he created The Monuments of Passaic, 1967). He reused the title to describe some of his works, based on natural materials like earth and rocks, and infused with his ideas about entropy and environmental catastrophe.[1] Smithson went on to become the foremost figure in Land Art.

gollark: I'm sure you'll have a long and successful career in AI ahead of you.
gollark: Maybe stick in fragments of text to make it seem like something's going on too.
gollark: That *would* be very funny. Just stick random camera streams onto a USB stick or DVD and leave it somewhere where someone might find it after a few months.
gollark: Probably not.
gollark: Or just something to stick random ones onto a display, which you could then call an art piece of some kind.

Footnotes
  1. Tiberghien, Gilles (1995). Land Art. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 18. ISBN 1-56898-040-X.


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