Agnes Denes, Wheatfield- A Confrontation
 
 


Agnes Denes, Wheatfield- A Confrontation, 1982, Battery Park Landfill, New York City, New York

Wanting to encourage people to consider the relationship between world hunger and the culture of capitalism, Denes and several volunteers planted a two-acre wheatfield, which they harvested three months later. Planted on the Battery Park Landfill, this wheatfield was in the midst of both the Twin Towers and the Statue of Liberty.

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