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Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson , Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to grow. In addition to a new introduction by Jack Flam, The Collected Writings includes previously unpublished essays by Smithson and gathers hard-to-find articles, interviews, and photographs. Together these provide a full picture of his wide-ranging views on art and culture. Amazon.com Review Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is the poster child for the antiformalist Earth Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. A coil of earth, salt, and stone that Smithson built into Great Salt Lake, Utah, the piece is a tribute to the movement's scale and engineering as well as to its visionary union of art and nature. Smithson's questioning of the conventional attitudes of art and culture did not stop with the creation of objects and images; he was committed to exploring of attitudes and ideas as a critical component of his work. A revised and expanded version of The Writings of Robert Smithson , this book is a charged combination of articles
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- Author
- Robert Smithson; Jack D Flam
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520203853
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Fiction, Philosophy, Art
- Rating
- 4.43 / 5 (229 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14