Land Art : True Capitalist Art

Land art is known to exist in remote locations, are immense in scale, are site specific and are incredibly costly to create. All of these traits make Land artworks inherently resistant to conservation and the secondary market. If these artworks do not present an obvious investment opportunity, how then can an art movement like Land art even exist? What is its role in a capitalist driven society, if it cannot perform as a financial asset? Where then does the value in Land art lie? This paper will attempt to explore the cultural effects on the movement, the subsequent methodologies developed by a handful of artists, and the pursuit of financing which does not conflict with their artistic intentions