Robert Smithson and the American Landscape (Contemporary Artists and Their Critics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521827553
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists; Individual Artist; Earthworks (Art); Art & Art Instruction; Art; Smithson, Robert; Art / General; Criticism and interpretation; General; History; United States
First sentence: In the October 1967 issue of Artforum, Robert Smithson wrote a brief letter to the editor in response to the art critic Michael Fried's attack on the minimalist object; Fried's article "Art and Objecthood" had appeared in the previous issue of the same publication.