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"A brisk, contemplative, and often brilliant study. . . . Second Site is an example of how issues of climate change, global politics, and social justice currently inform and redirect the ways in which we understand the history of site-specificity and land art. "—Enrique Ramirez, Landscape Architecture Magazine

"[Nisbet’s] achievement in Second Site is the way in which he places a number of site-specific works of varying renown into conversation, recontextualizing each through the lens of its secondary effects and impacts, and lay­ering this onto urgent concerns around conservation — both curatorially and ecologically."—Emily Cadotte, Esse Magazine

"[Second Site] is a welcome addition to a body of literature on site-specificity, or the idea that a particular space or place is integral to the meaning of an artwork, where activities, events, or objects turn a location into a unique site. . . . Concise and thought-provoking."—Brianne Cohen, caa.reviews

"Engaging and provocative. Nisbet persuasively argues that we need to think closely about the physical and ecological changes in many works of land art, revisiting them not as originals but as works that inherently embrace change."—Mark A. Cheetham, University of Toronto, author of Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the '60s

"Second Site is a crisply written, knowledgeable, and theoretically sophisticated exploration of temporality in site-specific art."—Gary Shapiro, author of Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel