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Robert Smithson

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ISBN-10: 0520244087

ISBN-13: 9780520244085

Edition: 2004

Authors: Eugenie Tsai, Robert Smithson, Cornelia Butler, Thomas E. Crow, Alexander Alberro

List price: $63.00
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This fully illustrated 248-page book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson's (1938-1973) complex and highly influential career. Straddling the movements of minimalism and land art, Smithson, who died in a plane crash at the age of 35, had a profound impact on the cultural landscape that resonates to this day.Robert Smithsonpresents essays by top Smithson scholars alongside both archival imagery and specially commissioned photography of the artist's works; it considers the interrelationship of Smithson's complete artistic output, from the earliest figurative work up to his famed earthworks. Smithson's revolutionary ideas positioned art as existing…    
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Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/27/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 9.50" wide x 11.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.784
Language: English

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cosmic Exile: Turns in the Life and Art of Robert Smithson
The Taste of Time: Salt and theSpiral Jetty
Towards "a new type of building": Robert Smithson's Architectural Criticism
Enantiomorphic Models
In the Yucatan: Mirroring Presence and Absence
Robert Smithson's Proposal for Monument at Antarctica
"A Heap of Language": Robert Smithson and American Hieroglyphics
The Catalogue of Robert Smithson's Library
The Library List
Beyond Duchamp: An Interview with Robert Smithson
A Lurid Presence: Smithson's Legacy and Post-Studio Art
Checklist of the Exhibition Exhibition Chronology