Printed Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithson, Robert
setName: label: See more items in
content: Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 7-11, Box 18, RD 31)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955-1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.smitrobe, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The series has been arranged by publication type.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: This series has been partially digitized. For books and booklets, only the covers and title pages and/or other relevant pages referencing Smithson have been digitized. Some overized printed material has not been digitized due to size.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Printed materials include books, clippings, and periodicals related to Smithson, either containing writings or sketches by him, or containing articles reviewing his work. While some of the clippings review Smithson's exhibitions and work, the bulk of the clippings are on the general topics of contemporary art trends, earth art, and emerging artists.

Exhibition announcements and catalogs are of Smithson's group and solo shows from 1959 to 1985, and include the following concept exhibitions whose catalogs were issued in very limited numbers: One Month (organized by Seth Siegelaub, March 1969), Letters (organized by Philip Simkin, July 1969), Projects Class (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Fall 1969), and Exhibition 557,087 (organized by Lucy Lippard, 1969).

Other rare printed materials in the series include Vito Acconci's Transference: Roget's Thesaurus, Acconci's periodical 0 to 9 (#6, July 1969), and the avant-garde periodical Aspen (#8, 1970).

Also included are inventory lists of the published books, periodicals, and phonographs from Robert Smithson's library that have been transferred to off-site storage.