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During the 1960s, Conceptual art was a growing trend in postwar art. The political strife of that time, as well as the increasing political attacks on the institution that contributed to it, were reflected in the art world's increasing ambivalence towards its own institutional traditions--that is, the long-standing bourgeois paradigm of art. The Land Art movement, which began in the United States, emerged from this 1960s art world as a response to the heightened political …

…of post-war art making, with many examples bordering between architecture and archaeology. It includes projects such as site-specific sculptural works that utilize the materials of the environment to create new forms or to adjust our impressions of the panorama. Leaving the confines of the gallery system and ideas of modernism, the Land Art movement aimed to do something on a much grander scale while at the same time aiming to destroy the commodification of art.