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Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings

Robert Smithson University of California Press University of California Press
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...
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Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere

Ann Reynolds The MIT Press The MIT Press
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...
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Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty

University of California Press University of California Press
In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point on Utah's Great Salt Lake. This dramatic and highly influential work forms a...
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Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History

Jennifer L. Roberts Yale University Press Yale University Press
Robert Smithson (1938-1973), an artist of paramount importance in postwar America, created radical new perspectives for landscape architecture, photography, art criticism, and site-specific installation. His Spiral Jetty - a 1,500-foot-long coil of...
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Re-envisioning Landscape/Architecture

Achim Wollscheid, Christine Boyer, Will Bruder, Nan Ellin, Coy Howard, Linda Jewell, Alberto Kalach, Mark Klett, Martha LaGess, Bruce Lindsey, Robert Mangurian, Laurel McSherry, Charles Menefee, Darren Petrucci, Alessandra Ponte, Peter Smithson Actar Actar
The relationship between landscape and architecture became strained in the early years of the Modern movement, when, in their respective efforts to idealize and universalize the construction of place, these two disciplines parted ways....
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Robert Smithson: Slideworks

Vicki Goldberg, Carlo Frua, Robert Smithson Carlo Frua Carlo Frua
Artwork by Robert Smithson. Text by Vicki Goldberg, Carlo Frua.
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Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Collection

Maria-Christina Villasenor, Joan Young, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Andreas Gursky, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Robert Smithson, Kara Walker, John G. Hanhardt, Maria-Christina VillaseƱor Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum
During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to...
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Oppenheim: Explorations

Assumpta Bassas, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Nick Kaye, Willoughby Sharp, Steve Wood, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Lynn Hershman, Simone Berti, Eva Marisaldi, Alessandra Tesi Charta Charta
One of the most adventurous American artists working today, Dennis Oppenheim has centered his artistic investigations on the dialogue between art and the self. An active innovator since the sixties, Oppenheim has pioneered both body art and...
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