Earthwards : Robert Smithson and art after Babel / Gary Shapiro.

Author
Shapiro, Gary, 1941- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
Description
xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Architecture Library - Stacks N6537.S6184 S52 1995 Browse related items Request
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      "When Robert Smithson died in 1973, postwar American art was robbed of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with the site-specific character of artistic production and with environmentalism." "Gary Shapiro examines the full range of Smithson's virtuosity from his best-known works, including Spiral Jetty and Partially Buried Woodshed, to his photographs, films, and theoretical writings. His book contextualizes Smithson's career within the critical and philosophical legacy of American art of the 1960s."--Jacket.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and index.
      Contents
      • Prologue: The cinema of the exploding sun
      • Time and its surfaces: postperiodization
      • Uncanny materiality: decentering art and vision
      • Rifts: beyond the garden to the sites of time
      • Printed matter: a heap of language
      • Spiraling signatures: Et in Utah ego.
      ISBN
      • 0520088565 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780520088566 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
      • 0520212355
      • 9780520212350
      LCCN
      94026419
      OCLC
      30738796
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