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A Principal of the Land Art Movement
Alice Aycock’s 1972 work “Maze” – tall stockade fencing in concentric circles on farmland -- was an icon of the Land Art movement. She became renowned for her later monumental public sculptures, combining art and architecture, and built on a childhood love of narrative literature. Her works contain psychological ambiguity. Towering, swirling white metal ribbon tornadoes set against New York office buildings were both beautiful and dangerous.
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