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Stan Herd's
earthworks have been published worldwide. His works have reached
audiences from Sri Lanka to Moscow and have appeared in numerous
publications including Smithsonian, National Geographic,
People Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.
Film
crews from South America, Japan, and England have captured
Herd's unique art for presentation to facinated television
audiences. He has been featured on CBS's Sunday Morning,
Fox Television's Breakfast Time, NBC's Dateline,
CNN News, ABC's Good Morning America, and National
Public Radio's All Things Considered.
Stan is
also the author of Crop Art and
Other Earth Works a chronicle of his work from 1976
to 1993.
"Several
things happend to Herd in the 1970's to interest him in the
idea of art from above. Two television documentaries had a
huge impact on him--one about the mysterious line drawings
in the Nazca Desert in Peru, which make sense only when viewed
from the air; and the other about Christo..."
Jim
Robbins for Smithsonian magazine, July 1994
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