Main entry:

Smithson, Robert.

Title & Author:

Robert Smithson / organized by Eugenie Tsai with Cornelia Butler ; additional essay by Thomas Crow ; texts by Alexander Alberro [and others] ; interview with Robert Smithson by Moira Roth.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.

Description:

280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Sept. 12-Dec. 13, 2004, the Dallas Museum of Art, Jan. 14-Apr. 3, 2005, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 23-Oct. 16, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-276).
Robert Smithson: plotting a line from Passaic, New Jersey, to Amarillo, Texas / Eugenie Tsai -- Cosmic exile: prophetic turns in the life and art of Robert Smithson / Thomas Crow -- An interview with Robert Smithson (1973) / Moira Roth ; edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse -- The taste of time: salt and the Spiral Jetty / Jennifer L. Roberts -- Enantiomorphic models / Ann Reynolds -- Robert Smithson's proposal for a monument at Antarctica / Robert A. Sobieszek -- Towards "a new type of building": Robert Smithson's architectural criticism / Mark Linder -- In the Yucatán: mirroring presence and absence / Suzaan Boettger -- "A heap of language": Robert Smithson and American hieroglyphics / Richard Sieburth -- A lurid presence: Smithson's legacy and post-studio art / Cornelia Butler -- The Catalogue of Robert Smithson's library / Alexander Alberro -- Catalogue of Robert Smithson's library: books, magazines, and records.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520244087 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520244085 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520244095 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520244092 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Smithson, Robert Exhibitions.
Smithson, Robert Criticism and interpretation.
Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973 Criticism and interpretation.
Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973 Exhibitions.
Smithson, Robert Expositions.
Smithson, Robert Critique et interprétation.
Smithson, Robert
Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973.
Beeldende kunsten.
Land art.
Installation d'art.

Form/genre:

Exhibition
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Interviews.
exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Tsai, Eugenie.
Butler, Cornelia H.
Crow, Thomas E., 1948-
Alberro, Alexander.
Roth, Moira.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Dallas Museum of Art.
Whitney Museum of American Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232617
Call No.: N44.S6645 R63 2004
Status: Available