A candidate for the Ph.D in History of Art, Julian D. Myers, in his dissertation, turns to the relationship between American artists and the landscape in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Titled “No Places: Earthworks and Urbanism, 1966-1980,” the dissertation argues that artists such as Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, and Mary Miss, who left the limits of traditional art spaces to create work in abandoned or distant landscapes, is best understood in terms of a broader history of land development and urbanism in the United States. Through an examination of the artworks on their disparate sites, Myers will connect art history to postwar theories of space, landscape, and architecture.