Robert Smithson: Collected Writings
Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Robert Smithson was an artist who expanded what art could be and where it could be found. For over fifty years his work, writings, and ideas have influenced artists and thinkers, building the ground from which contemporary art has grown.
An autodidact, Smithson's interests in travel, cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy, science fiction, popular culture, and language spiral through his work. In his short and prolific life, Smithson produced paintings, drawings, sculpture, earthworks, architectural schemes, films and video, photographs and slideworks and all the stops between. From his landmark earthworks to his “quasi-minimalist” sculptures, Nonsites, writings, proposals, collages, detailed drawings, and radical rethinking of landscape, Smithson's ideas are profoundly urgent for our times. By exploring the conceptual and physical boundaries of knowledge Smithson raised essential questions about our place in the world.
Robert Smithson’s Collected Writings bring together a selection of published and unpublished essays, poems, and interviews written between 1962 and 1973. It is the definitive publication on his art and ideas. The publication is introduced with an essay by art historian Jack Flam, who contextualizes the writing to Smithson’s time and artist practice. For Smithson, his writings are as much an artwork as his sculptures, drawings, and films.
Editor
Jack Flam
Authors
Jack Flam, Robert Smithson
Specifications
University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 978-0520203853
Paperback
418 pages
1778 x 254 mm / 10 x 7 inches
English
$42
Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Robert Smithson was an artist who expanded what art could be and where it could be found. For over fifty years his work, writings, and ideas have influenced artists and thinkers, building the ground from which contemporary art has grown.
An autodidact, Smithson's interests in travel, cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy, science fiction, popular culture, and language spiral through his work. In his short and prolific life, Smithson produced paintings, drawings, sculpture, earthworks, architectural schemes, films and video, photographs and slideworks and all the stops between. From his landmark earthworks to his “quasi-minimalist” sculptures, Nonsites, writings, proposals, collages, detailed drawings, and radical rethinking of landscape, Smithson's ideas are profoundly urgent for our times. By exploring the conceptual and physical boundaries of knowledge Smithson raised essential questions about our place in the world.
Robert Smithson’s Collected Writings bring together a selection of published and unpublished essays, poems, and interviews written between 1962 and 1973. It is the definitive publication on his art and ideas. The publication is introduced with an essay by art historian Jack Flam, who contextualizes the writing to Smithson’s time and artist practice. For Smithson, his writings are as much an artwork as his sculptures, drawings, and films.
Editor
Jack Flam
Authors
Jack Flam, Robert Smithson
Specifications
University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 978-0520203853
Paperback
418 pages
1778 x 254 mm / 10 x 7 inches
English
$42
Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Robert Smithson was an artist who expanded what art could be and where it could be found. For over fifty years his work, writings, and ideas have influenced artists and thinkers, building the ground from which contemporary art has grown.
An autodidact, Smithson's interests in travel, cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy, science fiction, popular culture, and language spiral through his work. In his short and prolific life, Smithson produced paintings, drawings, sculpture, earthworks, architectural schemes, films and video, photographs and slideworks and all the stops between. From his landmark earthworks to his “quasi-minimalist” sculptures, Nonsites, writings, proposals, collages, detailed drawings, and radical rethinking of landscape, Smithson's ideas are profoundly urgent for our times. By exploring the conceptual and physical boundaries of knowledge Smithson raised essential questions about our place in the world.
Robert Smithson’s Collected Writings bring together a selection of published and unpublished essays, poems, and interviews written between 1962 and 1973. It is the definitive publication on his art and ideas. The publication is introduced with an essay by art historian Jack Flam, who contextualizes the writing to Smithson’s time and artist practice. For Smithson, his writings are as much an artwork as his sculptures, drawings, and films.
Editor
Jack Flam
Authors
Jack Flam, Robert Smithson
Specifications
University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 978-0520203853
Paperback
418 pages
1778 x 254 mm / 10 x 7 inches
English
$42