Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere [Hardcover]

Ann Reynolds (Author)

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Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press (May 9 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262182270
ISBN-13: 978-0262182270
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 2.1 x 0.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,587,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Basing her study of leading Sixties artist Robert Smithson (1938-73) on a collection of his personal papers and his library, which were donated in 1987 to the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, Reynolds (art & art history, Univ. of Texas, Austin) focuses on the historical and ideological thinking of the 1960s and early 1970s in an effort to delineate Smithson's complexity, both artistically and philosophically. Smithson challenged the established art world's narrow vision and limited boundaries: for him, New Jersey became the prototype of "elsewhere," a place where he could create works for specific sites while engaging the outside, natural world in the creative process. Reynolds allows the reader to follow Smithson's process of creation through his own notebooks and sketches, his interviews and articles, the images he clipped from magazines, and the photographs he took. This admirable project, however, is studded with jargon and an idiosyncratic approach that may baffle the reader. Extensive notes and epigraphs are included, and the bibliography lists Smithson's library, itself a fascinating study of the artist. For large academic art collections.
Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"This is a breathtaking book. Listen to history as it stands up and shouts. Feel the mind spin and snap as Reynolds' analysis of the hidden world of Smithson's previously silent archive grows exponentially. No worn out platitudes of contemporary theory and art history here -- instead, showering crystals of original material and virtuoso revelation. Robert Smithson: Learning From New Jersey and Elsewhere sets a new standard of scholarship. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Smithson, the 60s, contemporary art, film studies, and the roots of critical postmodernism."--Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, New York University, and author of *How Like A Leaf: An Interview with Donna Haraway*

"A useful and thoroughly entertaining book." Carter Ratcliff Art in America

"Reynolds has revitalized not only an important and little-researched moment in Smithson's career, but also—and perhaps more significantly—a crucial event in the history of art practice in the U.S. and beyond." Alex Alberro, Department of Art History, University of Florida

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