They were pioneers, you could say land art existed thousands of years even before oil painting.

他们是先驱者。你可以说陆地艺术早在油画之前就存在了几千年。

Some art theorists use the term land art and environmental art interchangeably.

一些艺术理论家把“土地艺术”和“环境艺术”互换使用。

Or in this case, a work of art, land art might change in unpredictable ways, and that's the point.

或者是一件艺术品，陆地艺术可能会以不可预测的方式改变，这就是重点。

But the land art of Smithson is not so much about ecology or direct activism.

但史密森的土地艺术并不是关于生态或直接的行动主义。

The jump from minimalism to land art is not such a giant leap.

从极简主义到大地艺术并不是一个巨大的飞跃。

And the sudden appearance of earth art or land art can be seen as a response to the heightened political activism of the time.

大地艺术或大地艺术的突然出现可以被看作是对当时高度政治激进主义的回应。

Land art needed wealthy patrons who were not going to get anything in return, just the chance to feel a part of art history.

土地艺术需要富有的赞助人，他们不会得到任何回报，只是有机会感受艺术历史的一部分。

The British land art, typified by Richard Long's piece, was not only more domestically scaled, but a lot quirkier than its American counterpart.

以理查德·朗的作品为代表的英国大地艺术不仅更具国内规模，而且比美国同行更加古怪。

Even becomes a land art, where people can walk around the building, they can climb this building as they're wandering in this volcano park.

甚至成为一种大地艺术， 人们可以在建筑周围走动，也可以爬上这座建筑， 就像在这个火山公园里闲逛一样。

I think the land art movement was less about ecology than it was about a desire to take art out of the white box of the gallery.

我认为土地艺术运动更多的是想把艺术从画廊的白盒子里拿出来。

While the key element of land art was often its monumentality and its site-specific context, it also connected closely with many of the concerns of minimalism.

虽然大地艺术的关键元素通常是它的纪念碑性和特定的场地背景，但它也与许多极简主义密切相关。

Robert Smithson was not just an artist, he was an intellectual, an important writer, and a theorist, it would be his words that gave land art a voice.

罗伯特·史密森不仅仅是一位艺术家，他还是一位知识分子，一位重要的作家和理论家，正是他的文字赋予了大地艺术话语权。