Award-winning author, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of Americas most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism, and feminist art. Hailed for "e;the breadth of her reading and the comprehensiveness with which she considers the things that define place"e; (The New York Times), Lippard now turns her keen eye to the politics of land use and art in an evolving New West.Working from her own lived experience in a New Mexico village and inspired by gravel pits in the landscape, Lippard weaves a number of fascinating themesamong them fracking, mining, land art, adobe buildings, ruins, Indian land rights, the Old West, tourism, photography, and waterinto a tapestry that illuminates the relationship between culture and the land. From threatened Native American sacred sites to the history of uranium mining, she offers a skeptical examination of the "e;subterranean economy."e;Featuring more than two hundred gorgeous color images, Undermining is a must-read for anyone eager to explore a new way of understanding the relationship between art and place in a rapidly shifting society.