Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most important artists of his generation, produced sculpture, drawings, photographs, films, and paintings in addition to the writings collected here.
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Catalogue printed on the occasion of the exhibition 'Robert Smithson in Texas' at the Dallas Museum of Art, November 24, 2013 - April 27, 2014
"There have been other exhibitions of his works, but Robert Smithson: Photo Works is the first to examine his use of the camera and to present the way he saw...
Hamburger Heaven prepares sport on the jelly - tart , according to blitzed theology . Wailing gives way to numb limbs and roots , before the declining Inquisitor . Flayed icons are painted with tar by the Great Master Painter from the ...
In 1968 Smithson complicated and combined his site/nonsite work and his concern with the abyss in the Cayuga Salt Mine Project that he made for an “Earth Art” exhibition at Cornell University. He chose as the site pole of the work a ...
“The Crystal Land,” Harper's Bazaar, May 1966, pp. 72–73, reprinted in Smithson 1996, pp. 7–9 [Smithson 1966b]. ———, “Entropy and the New Monuments,” Artforum 4, no. 10 (June 1966), pp. 26–31, reprinted in Smithson 1996, pp.
"Serves as a record of Smithson's known three-dimensional works ... strikingly illustrated with color plates and more than 225 black and white illustrations"--Dustjacket.
This book brings together a complete selection of archival material related to the work - ranging from photographs, film scripts and drawings to original manuscripts and letters - spread over different archives in the Netherlands and the US ...
Un mundo que Robert Smithson se esforzó en describir antes de morir, en el aire, en 1971.
Offering a critical analysis of Smithson's view of time, it provides comprehensive case studies of three of his most influential projects: "The Monuments of Passaic," a sardonic tour of a decaying New Jersey city conducted in the wake of ...