Robert Smithson : die Erfindung der Landschaft = Robert Smithson : the invention of landscape : Broken Circle, Spiral Hill & film / [Kuratoren, Eva Schmidt, Roel Arkesteijn].

Main entry:

Smithson, Robert.

Title & Author:

Robert Smithson : die Erfindung der Landschaft = Robert Smithson : the invention of landscape : Broken Circle, Spiral Hill & film / [Kuratoren, Eva Schmidt, Roel Arkesteijn].

Publication:

Description:

135 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 28 cm

Notes:
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, March 4-May 28, 2012, and Reykjavík Art Museum, January 17-April 13, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references.
Text in German and English.

Summary:

Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (in Emmen, Netherlands) is the only earthwork produced by Smithson still in existence outside the United States. As an integral part of these works, Smithson made films that reveal the spatial and environmental context of the work. Aerial shots in a symmetrical pattern were combined with close-ups, documentary footage of the construction of the work and views of the surrounding landscape. In this way, visitors to galleries and museums were introduced to the earthworks produced by Smithson in barely accessible, remote locations. As a result of a tragic aircraft accident during a reconnaissance flight in 1973, Smithson's life and work came to a premature end. Smithson was never able to finish the film about Broken Circle/Spiral Hill. Forty years later, a video incorporating the original film footage is now to be completed on behalf of the Land Art Contemporary program in a collaboration between artist Nancy Holt and curator Theo Tegelaers of SKOR Foundation for Art and Public Domain. Holt currently works with a Dutch team in editing the video Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, including the original film footage she shot in 1971, and video recently shot recently in Emmen by a Dutch crew.

ISBN:

9783864420108 (pbk.)
3864420105 (pbk.)

Subject:

Smithson, Robert Exhibitions.
Smithson, Robert. Broken Circle/Spiral Hill Exhibitions.
Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973 Individual works Broken Circle/Spiral Hill.
Smithson, Robert
Earthworks (Art) Exhibitions.
Land art Expositions.
Earthworks (Art)

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Schmidt, Eva, 1957-
Arkesteijn, Roel.
Holt, Nancy, 1938-2014.
Tegelaers, Theo.
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen.
Kjarvalsstaðir (Reykjavík, Iceland)
Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte.

Broken Circle, Spiral Hill & film

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285988
Call No.: BIB 226063
Status: Available

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