{"product_id":"robert-smithson","title":"Robert Smithson","description":"Used Paperback in Very Good condition. This fully illustrated 248-page book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson's (1938-1973) complex and highly influential career. Straddling the movements of minimalism and land art, Smithson, who died in a plane crash at the age of 35, had a profound impact on the cultural landscape that resonates to this day. \u003ci\u003eRobert Smithson \u003c\/i\u003epresents essays by top Smithson scholars alongside both archival imagery and specially commissioned photography of the artist's works; it considers the interrelationship of Smithson's complete artistic output, from the earliest figurative work up to his famed earthworks. Smithson's revolutionary ideas positioned art as existing beyond the walls of the museum in media such as writing and film, and even in the landscape itself. This volume and the exhibition it accompanies explore Smithson's work within the context of the artistic climate of the late 1960s as well as ensuing decades. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps most renowned as the creator of \u003ci\u003eSpiral Jetty \u003c\/i\u003e(1970), a fifteen-hundred-foot rock coil dramatically situated in the Great Salt Lake, Smithson also broke new ground with his films, photographs, writing, drawings, and collages. Eugenie Tsai provides a curatorial overview of the exhibition, which includes early writings, drawings, and other work with religious, erotic, and pop culture motifs that deepen our understanding of Smithson's diverse practice. Other contributions to the volume are a previously unpublished interview with Smithson by Moira Roth; a substantive historical and critical essay by Thomas Crow; an essay by MOCA curator Cornelia Butler discussing Smithson's lineage and his influence on contemporary artists; and a series of texts focusing on key works from Smithson's oeuvre, including \u003ci\u003eIncidents of Mirror Travel in the Yucatan \u003c\/i\u003eby Suzaan Boettger, \u003ci\u003eEnantiomorphic Chambers \u003c\/i\u003eby Ann Reynolds, \u003ci\u003eAirport Terminal Project \u003c\/i\u003eby Mark Linder, \u003ci\u003eSpiral Jetty \u003c\/i\u003eby Jennifer Roberts, \u003ci\u003eHeap of Language \u003c\/i\u003eby Richard Sieburth, \u003ci\u003eProposal for Monument at Antartica \u003c\/i\u003e[sic] by Robert Sobieszek. The book also features the complete \u003ci\u003eLibrary List--\u003c\/i\u003ea posthumously compiled list of publications in Smithson's personal library--with an introduction by Alexander Alberro, as well as an exhibition checklist and annotated exhibition chronology. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions by Alexander Alberro, Suzaan Boettger, Cornelia Butler, Thomas Crow, Mark Linder, Ann Reynolds, Jennifer L. Roberts, Moira Roth, Richard Sieburth, Robert A. Sobieszek, and Eugenie Tsai","brand":"-","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53900687900955,"sku":"mon0000800164","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/5661253482373.jpg?v=1788743004","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/robert-smithson","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}