Robert Smithson : learning from New Jersey and elsewhere /

Robert Smithson : learning from New Jersey and elsewhere /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Reynolds, Ann Morris.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 364 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Smithson, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation. Smithson, Robert -- Archives. Smithson, Robert. Archives. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11127752

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Other authors / contributors:	Smithson, Robert.
ISBN:	9780262282345 0262282348 0585480826 9780585480824 9780585480826
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-296) and index. "Robert Smithson's Library": pages 297-345. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Reynolds, Ann Morris. Robert Smithson. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003 0262182270

Table of Contents:

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 cartogrpahic premise
The terminal view
Yucatan is elsewhere
Dirt as disorder
Buried architecture
Trespassing
Image crisis.