William L. Fox is a writer whose work is a sustained inquiry into how human cognition transforms land into landscape. His numerous nonfiction books rely upon fieldwork with artists and scientists in extreme environments to provide the narratives through which he conducts his investigations. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Fox has published poems, articles, reviews, and essays in more than seventy magazines, has had fifteen collections of poetry published in three countries, and has written eleven nonfiction books about the relationships among art, cognition, and landscape. He has also authored essay for numerous exhibition catalogs and artists’ monographs.
William L. Fox

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A Pipeline Runs Through It
IT’S A GRAY LATE AFTERNOON on the North Slope of Alaska, and from a thousand feet up in the air the sea is a flat slate, the land a lacework of Continue reading
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Red Desert
NINETY PERCENT OF WYOMING is open to oil, gas, and mineral exploration, and the 10 million square acres of the Red Desert in the southwestern portion of the state are mostly Continue reading
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Reinventing Los Angeles
IN 1997, environmental historian Robert Gottlieb took up a position at Occidental College in Los Angeles that encouraged him to teach and research, but, somewhat uniquely, also to continue his activist Continue reading
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Celestial Spheres
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, the majority of the world’s population lives in urban areas, which means most of us also live under streetlights, divorced from the night sky. Disconnect Continue reading
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Design on the Edge
HIGHER EDUCATION is a big business getting bigger, as the billions spent by colleges and universities on new construction demonstrate. Sadly, many of these institutions erect buildings with only short-term cost Continue reading
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Tracking Tar
It was the volcano pushing up out of the lake at the end of the street that finally got me thinking. Earlier in the day, finding myself restless and unable to Continue reading