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Robert Smithson, the collected writings / edited by Jack Flam.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection N7445.2.S62 A35 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smithson, Robert.
- Series:
- Documents of 20th century art
- The documents of twentieth-century art
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 1996
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973.
- Art.
- Local Subjects:
- Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Collected writings
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- This collection includes previously unpublished essays by Smithson and gathers hard-to-find articles, interviews, and photographs, as well as a catalog of the books in Smithson's library. Together these provide a full picture of his wide-ranging views on art and culture. 220 photos.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Reading Robert Smithson
- Published writing : Quick Millions (1965)
- Donald Judd (1965)
- The Crystal Land (1966)
- Entropy and the New Monuments (1966)
- The X Factor in Art (1966)
- The Domain of the Great Bear (1966)
- Quasi-Infinities and the Waning of Space (1966)
- The Cryosphere (1966)
- Interpolation of the Enantiomorphic Chambers (1966)
- Some Void Thoughts on Museums (1967)
- What is a Museum? A Dialogue Between Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson (1967)
- Towards the Development of an Air Terminal Site (1967)
- Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read (1967)
- Ultramoderne (1967)
- Letter to the Editor (1967)
- A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey (1967)
- Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction (1970)
- A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art (1968)
- A Thing is a Hole in a Thing It is Not (1968)
- The Establishment (1968)
- A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects (1968)
- Minus Twelve (1968)
- Aerial Art (1969)
- Incidents of mirror-travel in the Yucatan (1969)
- The artist and politics : a symposium (1970)
- Gyrostasis (1970)
- A cinematic atopia (1971)
- The spiral jetty (1972)
- Cultural confinement (1972)
- Frederick Law Olmsted and the dialectical landscape (1973).
- Interviews : Smithson's non-site sights / Anthony Robbin (1969)
- Earth / Thomas W. Leavitt (1969)
- Fragments of a conversation / William C. Lipke (1969)
- Fragments of an interview with Patsy Norvell (1969)
- Four conversations between Dennis Wheeler and Robert Smithson / edited by Eva Schmidt (1969-1970)
- Interview with Robert Smithson / Paul Toner (1970)
- Discussions with Heizer, Oppenheim, Smithson / Liza Bear, Willoughby Sharp (1970)
- " ... The earth, subject to cataclysms, is a cruel master" / Gregoire Müller (1971)
- Conversation with Robert Smithson / Bruce Kurtz (1972)
- Interview with Robert Smithson for the archives of American art / Smithosonian Institute, Paul Cummings (1972)
- Conversation in Salt Lake City / Gianni Pettena (1972)
- Entropy made visible / Alison Sky (1973)
- Robert Smithson on Duchamp / Moira Roth (1973).
- Unpublished writings : Poems (1959-1961) : From the temptations
- From the walls of Dis
- From the city
- To the eye of blood
- The lamentations of the paroxysmal artist
- Prose : The iconography of desolation (c. 1962)
- The eliminator (1964)
- The hum (c. 1965)
- A short description of two mirrored crystal structures (1965)
- Response to a questionnaire from Irving Sandler (1966)
- Colossal nullifications (part I) (c. 1966)
- Atlantic City (H-13) (1966)
- The shape of the future and memory (1966)
- Predictable model for unpredictable project (c. 1966)
- Proposal for the detection of approximate period quantity (c. 1966)
- An esthetics of disappointment (c. 1966)
- Sol Lewitt (1966-67)
- A refutation of historical humanism (1966-67)
- The pathetic fallacy in esthetics (1966-67)
- Abstract mannerism (1966-67)
- The artist as site-seer; or, a ditorphic essay (1966-67)
- What really spoils Michelangelo's sculpture (1966-67)
- From Ivan the Terrible to Roger Corman or paradoxes of conduct in mannerism as reflected in the cinema (1967)
- Proposal for earthworks and landmarks to be built on the fringes of the Fort Worth-Dallas Regional Air Terminal Site (1966-67)
- Untitled (air terminal, windows) (1967)
- See the monuments of Passaic New Jersey (1967)
- The monument : outline for a film (1967)
- Pointless vanishing points (1967)
- A small test for Jo Baer (1968)
- Outline for Yale Symposium : against absolute categories (1968)
- Sites and settings (1968)
- Untitled (site data) (1968)
- A provisional theory of non-sites (1968)
- Non-site number 2 (1968)
- Hidden trails in art (1969)
- Can man survive? (1969)
- Letter to Gyorgy Kepes (1969)
- Look (1970)
- Art and dialectics (1971)
- Art through the camera's eye (c. 1971)
- Untitled (1971)
- Letter to John Dixon (1972)
- Production for production's sake (1972)
- Untitled (1972)
- Proposal (1972).
- Notes:
- Revised edition of: The writings of Robert Smithson. New York : New York University Press, 1979.
- "Bibliography of writings by Robert Smithson": pages 384-386.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520203853
- 0520203852
- OCLC:
- 32853450
- Publisher Number:
- 99970313381
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