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Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings
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Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to grow. In addition to a new introduction by Jack Flam, The Collected Writings includes previously unpublished essays by Smithson and gathers hard-to-find articles, interviews, and photographs. Together these provide a full picture of his wide-ranging views on art and culture.
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is the poster child for the antiformalist Earth Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. A coil of earth, salt, and stone that Smithson built into Great Salt Lake, Utah, the piece is a tribute to the movement's scale and engineering as well as to its visionary union of art and nature. Smithson's questioning of the conventional attitudes of art and culture did not stop with the creation of objects and images; he was committed to exploring of attitudes and ideas as a critical component of his work. A revised and expanded version of The Writings of Robert Smithson, this book is a charged combination of articles and images in which the author demystifies the distinction between theory and practice.
Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History
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Robert Smithson (1938-1973), an artist of paramount importance in postwar America, created radical new perspectives for landscape architecture, photography, art criticism, and site-specific installation. His Spiral Jetty - a 1,500-foot-long coil of rock built in 1970 at the edge of the Great Salt Lake - is widely appreciated as one of the most significant art projects of the twentieth century. Less well known is the connection between the Jetty and the nearby Golden Spike National Historic Site, location of the completion of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. The link between these two monuments is but one facet of an entire complex of historical reference and reflection that structures Smithson's work. Mirror-Travels encompasses the full span of Smithson's career, offering a close analysis of the artist's working model of history and featuring comprehensive case studies of three of his most influential works: "The Monuments of Passaic", "Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan", and the Spiral Jetty. Incorporating abundant new material from Smithson's personal papers and library, Jennifer Roberts offers surprising new interpretations about the artist and his responses to the social, ideological, and material contradictions of his time.
Robert Smithson
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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 Smithson presents 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 beyond the walls of the museum in media such as writing and film, and even in the landscape itself. This volume and the exhibition it accompanies explore Smithson's work within the context of the artistic climate of the late 1960s as well as ensuing decades. Perhaps most renowned as the creator of Spiral Jetty (1970), a fifteen-hundred-foot rock coil dramatically situated in the Great Salt Lake, Smithson also broke new ground with his films, photographs, writing, drawings, and collages. Eugenie Tsai provides a curatorial overview of the exhibition, which includes early writings, drawings, and other work with religious, erotic, and pop culture motifs that deepen our understanding of Smithson's diverse practice. Other contributions to the volume are a previously unpublished interview with Smithson by Moira Roth; a substantive historical and critical essay by Thomas Crow; an essay by MOCA curator Cornelia Butler discussing Smithson's lineage and his influence on contemporary artists; and a series of texts focusing on key works from Smithson's oeuvre, including Incidents of Mirror Travel in the Yucatan by Suzaan Boettger, Enantiomorphic Chambers by Ann Reynolds, Airport Terminal Project by Mark Linder, Spiral Jetty by Jennifer Roberts, Heap of Language by Richard Sieburth, Proposal for Monument at Antartica [sic] by Robert Sobieszek. The book also features the complete Library List--a posthumously compiled list of publications in Smithson's personal library--with an introduction by Alexander Alberro, as well as an exhibition checklist and annotated exhibition chronology.
Scale in art.(ART NOTES: clip & save art print)(Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty): An article from: Arts & Activities
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This digital document is an article from Arts & Activities, published by Publishers' Development Corporation on June 1, 2011. The length of the article is 673 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Scale in art.(ART NOTES: clip & save art print)(Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty) Author: Colleen Carroll Publication: Arts & Activities (Magazine/Journal) Date: June 1, 2011 Publisher: Publishers' Development Corporation Volume: 149 Issue: 5 Page: 28(1) Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty
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In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point on Utah's Great Salt Lake. This dramatic and highly influential work forms a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide and stretches out counterclockwise into the lake's translucent red water. Composed of black basalt rocks and earth, the sculpture comprises the materials of its location: mud, salt crystals, rocks, water.
The contributors to this comprehensive publication consider the sculpture in relation to its eponymous companions--a text work and a film. These essays situate this renowned series of works alongside Smithson's critical writings, proposals, drawings, sources, and models. Amply illustrated with archival and new photographs of the Jetty and many comparative illustrations, this book makes evident why Smithson's art and writings have had such a powerful impact on art and art theory for over thirty years.
Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere
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Robert Smithson (1938-1973) produced his best-known work during the 1960s and early 1970s, a period in which the boundaries of the art world and the objectives of art-making were questioned perhaps more consistently and thoroughly than any time before or since. In Robert Smithson, Ann Reynolds elucidates the complexity of Smithson's work and thought by placing them in their historical context, a context greatly enhanced by the vast archival materials that Smithson's widow, Nancy Holt, donated to the Archives of American Art in 1987. The archive provides Reynolds with the remnants of Smithson's working life -- magazines, postcards from other artists, notebooks, and perhaps most important, his library -- from which she reconstructs the physical and conceptual world that Smithson inhabited. Reynolds explores the relation of Smithson's art-making, thinking about art-making, writing, and interaction with other artists to the articulated ideology and discreet assumptions that determined the parameters of artistic practice of the time.A central focus of Reynolds's analysis is Smithson's fascination with the blind spots at the center of established ways of seeing and thinking about culture. For Smithson, New Jersey was such a blind spot, and he returned there again and again -- alone and with fellow artists -- to make art that, through its location alone, undermined assumptions about what and, more important, where, art should be. For those who guarded the integrity of the established art world, New Jersey was "elsewhere"; but for Smithson, "elsewheres" were the defining, if often forgotten, locations on the map of contemporary culture.
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Fridays on the Promenade Band Lineup Announced - KCAU
KCAU, IA - May 23, 4680
Fridays on the Promenade Band Lineup AnnouncedThe Everett Smithson Band plays an interesting variety of music as well as standards that have a unique spin on them and many delightful originals. They play Zydeco (swamp rock), Rock and Roll, Country, Blues and Rockabilly. Fridays on the Promenade lineup announced
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REGION: Hopes dashed early for North County "Idol" fans - North County Times - Californian
North County Times - Californian, CA - May 21, 2009
REGION: Hopes dashed early for North County "Idol" fans"He's amazing," said Smithson. "He wears whatever he wants and sings whatever he wants," referring to Lambert's flamboyant style and theatrical flare. Seconds later Lambert appeared on the giant screen above the audience with the rock band Kiss in full Video: For Lambert Lovers, Does 'Idol' Loss Matter? American Idol : Season 8 : Episode 40 Winner Revealed
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Canyon trio excited about all-star game - Herald Zeitung
Herald Zeitung, TX - May 21, 2009
Canyon trio excited about all-star gameAlong with Devin Baker and Dillon Brown of Smithson Valley, they will play for the San Antonio area's East All-Stars. Kickoff is slated for 7:30 pm at Comalander Stadium. “We're glad we get to play again,” said Clay, who has rushed for 1000 yards in
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YORKSHIRE MIDDLE ROUTE COMBINE - Elimar Pigeon Services
Elimar Pigeon Services, UK - May 23, 871
Elimar Pigeon ServicesYORKSHIRE MIDDLE ROUTE COMBINE of Motherwell from his direct Jeff Van Winkle stock which Robert brought back for him from Belgium and in return Kenny gifted him four young birds. She has had minor cards from Arras & Clermont and wins pools. Second place went to Brian Smithson on
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Clay's last hurrah - Herald Zeitung
Herald Zeitung, TX - May 26, 2009
Clay's last hurrahVick threw a pair of interceptions, and the East - which also included Canyon players Tyler Denson and Derek Emery, and Smithson Valley players Devin Baker and Dillon Brown - turned the ball over twice on fumbles. “They're pretty good,” Clay said of
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