Robert Smithson
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780520244092
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists; Exhibitions; Criticism; History; Art & Art Instruction; Smithson, Robert; History: World; The Americas; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Essays; History - Contemporary (1945- ); Art / General; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This fully illustrated 280-page book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson's (1938-1973) complex and highly influential body of work. Perhaps best known as the creator of Spiral Jetty, a fifteen-hundred-foot rock coil dramatically situated in Utah's Great Salt Lake, Smithson also broke new ground with his films, photographs, writings, drawings, sculptures, and collages. His oeuvre defied convention, utilizing nontraditional art materials such as mirrors, maps, concrete, earth, and asphalt - in addition to language, as both a written and visual medium. Smithson's revolutionary ideas moved art beyond the walls of the museum into the landscape itself."--BOOK JACKET.