Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings
Robert Smithson'sSpiral Jettyis the poster child for  the antiformalist Earth Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. A coil of  earth, salt, and stone that Smithson built into Great Salt Lake, Utah,  the piece is a tribute to the movement's scale and engineering as well  as to its visionary union of art and nature. Smithson's questioning of  the conventional attitudes of art and culture did not stop with the  creation of objects and images; he was committed to exploring of  attitudes and ideas as a critical component of his work. A revised and  expanded version ofThe Writings of Robert Smithson, this book  is a charged combination of articles and images in which the author  demystifies the distinction between theory and practice.