Robert Smithson : learning from New Jersey and elsewhere
"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
Archives
xviii, 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
9780262182270, 9780262681551, 0262182270, 0262681552
49225960
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 cartographic premise
The terminal view
Yucatan is elsewhere
Dirt as disorder
Buried architecture
Trespassing
Image crisis