Earthwards Robert Smithson and Art after Babel

Name: Earthwards Robert Smithson and Art after Babel
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ISBN: 9780520088566

ISBN-10: 0520088565

ISBN-13: 9780520088566

Edition: 1995

Authors: Gary Shapiro

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The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogation of authorship, the linear historiography of high modernism, and the limitations of the museum prefigures key themes in postmodern criticism while underscoring the uniqueness of Smithson's own work as an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Gary Shapiro's elegant and incisive study of Smithson's career is the first book to address the full range of the artist's dazzling virtuosity. Ranging from…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/3/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 284
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Plates


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Prologue: The Cinema of the Exploding Sun



Time and Its Surfaces: Postperiodization



Uncanny Materiality: Decentering Art and Vision



Rifts: Beyond the Garden to the Sites of Time



Printed Matter: A Heap of Language



Spiraling Signatures: Et in Utah Ego


Sources and Criticism


Notes


Index