Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art ; Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

280 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports.; 28 cm.

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.

Subject

• Smithson, Robert > Exhibitions
• Smithson, Robert > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalogue 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-276).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0520244087 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520244095 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004049800

OCLC

• 55109185
• SCSB-11867754

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library