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Robert Smithson

American sculptor and painter

Inside the Spiral by Suzaan Boettger This first biography of the major American artist Robert Smithson deepens understanding of his art by addressing the potent forces in his life that were shrouded by his success, including his suppressed early history as a painter; his affiliation with Christianity, astrology, and alchemy; and his sexual fluidity. Suzaan Boettger uncovers Smithson's story and, with it, symbolic meanings across the span of his painted and drawn images, sculptures, essays, and earthworks up to the Spiral Jetty and beyond, to the circumstances leading to what became his final work, Amarillo Ramp.
Call Number: N6537.S6184 B64 2023
ISBN: 9781517913540
Publication Date: 2023-04-11
The Spiral Jetty Encyclo by Hikmet Sidney Loe "The Spiral Jetty Encyclo" draws on Smithson's writings for encyclopedic entries that bring to light the context of the earthwork and Smithson's many points of reference in creating it. Containing some 220 images, most of them in color, with some historical black and whites, "The Spiral Jetty Encyclo" lets readers explore the construction, connections, and significance of Smithson's 1,500-foot-long curl into Great Salt Lake, created, in Smithson's words, of "mud, salt crystals, rocks, water."
Call Number: NB237.S5694 A76 2017
ISBN: 9781607815419
Publication Date: 2017-09-30
Robert Smithson in Texas by Maxwell L. Anderson (Foreword by); Leigh Arnold (Text by); Amy Von Lintel (Text by); Jonathan Revett (Text by); Elyse Goldberg (Editor) Catalogue printed on the occasion of the exhibition 'Robert Smithson in Texas' at the Dallas Museum of Art, November 24, 2013 - April 27, 2014
Call Number: N6537.S6184 A4 2013
ISBN: 9780984680948
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
On Location: Siting Robert Smithson and his Contemporaries by Simon Dell In debates over the transition from modernism to postmodernism much is made of the shift from the autonomous art object to site-specific work. "On Location: Siting Robert Smithson and his Contemporaries" revives these debates by exploring the relationship between the site and the gallery space evident in the work of Robert Smithson and his peers. Robert Smithson engaged with exhibition spaces in different ways and, as a result, plays a pivotal role in these debates. Published in conjunction with the On Location exhibition at University of East Anglia's Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, "On Location: Siting Robert Smithson and his Contemporaries" is a timely exploration of the relationship between the art-object, the site and the exhibition space, presenting a robust contribution to one of the most important debates current in contemporary art.
Call Number: N6537.S6184 O55 2008
ISBN: 9781906155599
Publication Date: 2008-09-30
Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty: True Fictions, False Realities by Bob Phillips (Text by); Ann Reynolds (Contribution by); Lytle Shaw (Contribution by); Robert Smithson (Text by); Diana Thater (Text by); Lynne Cooke (Editor); Karen Kelly (Editor); Bettina Funcke (As told to); Barbara Schroder (As told to); Keith Baker (Contribution by); George Baker (Contribution by) In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point on Utah's Great Salt Lake. This dramatic and highly influential work forms a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide and stretches out counterclockwise into the lake's translucent red water. Composed of black basalt rocks and earth, the sculpture comprises the materials of its location: mud, salt crystals, rocks, water. The contributors to this comprehensive publication consider the sculpture in relation to its eponymous companions--a text work and a film. These essays situate this renowned series of works alongside Smithson's critical writings, proposals, drawings, sources, and models.
Call Number: NB237.S5694 A76 2005
ISBN: 0520245547
Publication Date: 2005-09-05
Mirror-travels: Robert Smithson and History by Jennifer L. Roberts; Robert Smithson Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty - a 1,500-foot-long coil of rock built in 1970 at the edge of the Great Salt Lake - is widely appreciated as one of the most significant art projects of the twentieth century. Less well known is the connection between the Jetty and the nearby Golden Spike National Historic Site, location of the completion of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. The link between these two monuments is but one facet of an entire complex of historical reference and reflection that structures Smithson's work.
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 0300094973
Publication Date: 2004-05-11
Robert Smithson by Eugenie Tsai (Contribution by, Editor); Whitney Museum of American Art Staff (Contribution by) This fully illustrated 248-page book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson's (1938-1973) complex and highly influential career. Robert Smithson presents essays by top Smithson scholars alongside both archival imagery and specially commissioned photography of the artist's works; it considers the interrelationship of Smithson's complete artistic output, from the earliest figurative work up to his famed earthworks. This volume and the exhibition it accompanies explore Smithson's work within the context of the artistic climate of the late 1960s as well as ensuing decades. Other contributions to the volume are a previously unpublished interview with Smithson by Moira Roth; a substantive historical and critical essay by Thomas Crow; an essay by MOCA curator Cornelia Butler discussing Smithson's lineage and his influence on contemporary artists; and a series of texts focusing on key works from Smithson's oeuvre, including Incidents of Mirror Travel in the Yucatan by Suzaan Boettger, Enantiomorphic Chambers by Ann Reynolds, Airport Terminal Project by Mark Linder, Spiral Jetty by Jennifer Roberts, Heap of Language by Richard Sieburth, Proposal for Monument at Antartica [sic] by Robert Sobieszek.
Call Number: N6537.S6184 A4 2004
ISBN: 0520244087
Publication Date: 2004-09-27
Robert Smithson and the American Landscape by Ron Graziani This volume comprises a social history of Robert Smithson's earthworks and their critical reception. In his analysis of the artist's personal writings and art works, Ron Graziani demonstrates how the earthworks were part of an aesthetic and civic fault line that ruptured in the 1960s. Moreover, Graziani reveals how Smithson's earthworks formed part of the "new conservationism" in the late 1960s and how it gave material form to the contradictions of a sociological issue, inseparable from its economic legacy.
Call Number: N6537.S6184 G73 2004
ISBN: 0521827558
Publication Date: 2004-04-05
Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere by Ann Morris Reynolds In Robert Smithson, Ann Reynolds elucidates the complexity of Smithson's work and thought by placing them in their historical context, a context greatly enhanced by the vast archival materials that Smithson's widow, Nancy Holt, donated to the Archives of American Art in 1987. Reynolds explores the relation of Smithson's art-making, thinking about art-making, writing, and interaction with other artists to the articulated ideology and discreet assumptions that determined the parameters of artistic practice of the time. A central focus of Reynolds's analysis is Smithson's fascination with the blind spots at the center of established ways of seeing and thinking about culture. For Smithson, New Jersey was such a blind spot, and he returned there again and again -- alone and with fellow artists -- to make art that, through its location alone, undermined assumptions about what and, more important, where, art should be.
Call Number: N6537.S6184 R48 2003
ISBN: 0262182270
Publication Date: 2003-05-09

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