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Inside the spiral : the passions of Robert Smithson
- Title
- Inside the spiral : the passions of Robert Smithson / Suzaan Boettger.
- Author
- Boettger, Suzaan
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Smithson, Robert.
- Description
- ix, 415 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
- Summary
- "This first biography of the major American artist Robert Smithson, famous as the creator of the Spiral Jetty, deepens understanding of his art by addressing the potent forces in his life that were shrouded by his success. Featuring copious illustrations never before published of early work, it offers unprecedented insight into the hidden impulses of one of modern art's most enigmatic figures"--
- Alternative Title
- Passions of Robert Smithson
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue and Background -- Prehistory and Early Painting -- 1. Man of Sorrow -- 2. Brother's Keeper -- 3. Drunk on Blood -- Clandestine Fantasies: 1962-1964 -- 4. Burying the Angel -- 5. Secret Partner -- Mutation of Artistic Persona: 1965-1968 -- 6. A Better Entrance -- 7. Locked Within -- Plates -- 8. Transmuted -- 9. From the Ground, Upward -- Professional Consummation: 1969-1970 -- 10. Mirroring Absence -- 11. The Site of the Spiral: Thicker Than Water -- 12. Inside the Spiral Expansion and Returns: 1971-1973 -- 13. Reclamations -- 14. Closing the Circle -- Gratitudes -- Notes -- Robert Smithson's Library: A Selective Bibliography -- Index
- Call Number
- JQF 24-295
- ISBN
- 9781517913540
- 1517913543
- 9781517913533
- 1517913535
- LCCN
- 2022039154
- OCLC
- 1313386947
- Author
- Boettger, Suzaan, author.
- Title
- Inside the spiral : the passions of Robert Smithson / Suzaan Boettger.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Smithson, Robert.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Boettger, Suzaan. Inside the spiral Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023] 9781452968605 (DLC) 2022039155
- Research Call Number
- JQF 24-295