This volume comprises a social history of Robert Smithson's earthworks and their critical reception. In his analysis of the artist's personal writings and art works, Ron Graziani demonstrates how the earthworks were part of an aesthetic and civic fault line that ruptured in the 1960s. Moreover, Graziani reveals how Smithson's earthworks formed part of the "new conservationism" in the late 1960s and how it gave material form to the contradictions of a sociological issue, inseparable from its economic legacy.
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Robert Smithson and the American Landscape is a social history of the artist's earthworks and their critical reception. Providing a close analysis of Smithson's own writings and art works, Ron Graziani demonstrates how his earthworks were part of an aesthetic and civic fault line that ruptured in the 1960s. Moreover, Graziani shows how Smithson's earthworks formed part of what was called the "new conservationism" in the late 1960s and how they gave material form to the contradictions of a sociological issue that was inseparable from its economic legacy.
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In the October 1967 issue of Artforum, Robert Smithson wrote a brief letter to the editor in response to the art critic Michael Fried's attack on the minimalist object; Fried's article "Art and Objecthood" had appeared in the previous issue of the same publication. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new conservationism, postmining sites, aesthetic foreman, reclamation portfolio, prospected site, mining ethic, literalist object, reclamation proposals, spiral hill, tailing mounds, hypothetical continent, federal land management policy, new land ethic, minimalist object, new conservationist, cultural confinement, civic disobedience, allegorical impulse, geophysical processes, earth art, economic habits, hereafter abbreviated, modernist sense, conceptual parameters, outdoor projects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robert Smithson, New York, New Jersey, Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, Spiral Jetty, Central Park, Great Salt Lake, Sierra Club, Wilderness Act, Rozel Point, Amarillo Ramp, Dwan Gallery, Egypt Valley, Kent State, United States, British Columbia, Double Negative, Garden of Eden, Glue Pour, Miami Islet, Michael Fried, Earth Day, Partially Buried Woodshed, Passaic River, The Entropy Law New!
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In the October 1967 issue of Artforum, Robert Smithson wrote a brief letter to the editor in response to the art critic Michael Fried's attack on the minimalist object; Fried's article "Art and Objecthood" had appeared in the previous issue of the same publication. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new conservationism, postmining sites, aesthetic foreman, reclamation portfolio, prospected site, mining ethic, literalist object, reclamation proposals, spiral hill, tailing mounds, hypothetical continent, federal land management policy, new land ethic, minimalist object, new conservationist, cultural confinement, civic disobedience, allegorical impulse, geophysical processes, earth art, economic habits, hereafter abbreviated, modernist sense, conceptual parameters, outdoor projects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robert Smithson, New York, New Jersey, Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, Spiral Jetty, Central Park, Great Salt Lake, Sierra Club, Wilderness Act, Rozel Point, Amarillo Ramp, Dwan Gallery, Egypt Valley, Kent State, United States, British Columbia, Double Negative, Garden of Eden, Glue Pour, Miami Islet, Michael Fried, Earth Day, Partially Buried Woodshed, Passaic River, The Entropy Law New!
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- Robert Smithson by Eugenie Tsai on 13 pages
- Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews by Michael Fried on 4 pages
- A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold on page 147, page 148, and Back Matter
- Robert Smithson Unearthed: Works on Paper 1957-1973 (Columbia Studies on Art) by Tsai Eugenie in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Rocky Mountain: The Story Behind the Scenery by Michael T. Smithson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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