Main entry:

Reynolds, Ann Morris.

Title & Author:

Robert Smithson : learning from New Jersey and elsewhere / Ann Reynolds.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.

Description:

xviii, 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Robert Smithson's Library": p. 297-345.
Includes statements by Robert Smithson.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-296) and index.
Culture as a way of seeing -- Perceiving abstraction -- The Alogons -- Abstraction's ambiguities -- The lessons of optical art -- Perceptual enantiomorphs -- New Jersey -- The crystal land -- Perspective: the metropolis -- A guide to the monuments of Passaic -- Travel as repetition -- A cartographic premise -- The terminal view -- Yucatan is elsewhere -- Dirt as disorder -- Buried architecture -- Trespassing -- Image crisis.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere, 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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
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Table of contents

ISBN:

0262182270 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262182270 (hc ; alk. paper)
0262681552
9780262681551

Subject:

Smithson, Robert Criticism and interpretation.
Smithson, Robert Archives.
Smithson, Robert
Smithson, Robert 1938-1973
Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973.
Land art.
Inspiratie.
Artists United States 20th century.

Form/genre:

Archives.
Quotations (texts)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Smithson, Robert.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227517
Call No.: N44.S6645 R48 2003
Status: Available