Robert Smithson and the American Landscape
by Ron Graziani
ISBN-10: 0521827558
ISBN-13: 9780521827553
$94.99
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published on
Apr 5, 2004
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.14x0.72x10.02 Inches
Weight
1.57 Pounds
About the Book
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.