TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reynolds,Ann Morris
AU  - Smithson,Robert
TI  - Robert Smithson: learning from New Jersey and elsewhere 
SN  - 0262182270
AV  - N6537.S6184 R48 2003
U1  - 779.092 23
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Smithson, Robert
KW  - Photography, Artistic
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Culture as a way of seeing -- Perceiving abstraction -- The Alogons -- Abstraction's ambiguities -- The lessons of optical art -- Perceptual enantiomorphs -- New Jersey -- The crystal land -- Perspective: the metropolis -- A guide to the monuments of Passaic -- Travel as repetition -- A cartographic premise -- The terminal view -- Yucatan is elsewhere -- Dirt as disorder -- Buried architecture -- Trespassing -- Image crisis
N2  - "Robert Smithson (1938-1973) produced his best-known work during the 1960s and early 1970s, a period in which the boundaries of the art world and the objectives of art-making were questioned perhaps more consistently and thoroughly than any time before or since. In Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere, Ann Reynolds elucidates the complexity of Smithson's work and thought by placing them in their historical context, a context greatly enhanced by the vast archival materials that Smithson's widow, Nancy Holt, donated to the Archives of American Art in 1987. The archive provides Reynolds with the remnants of Smithson's working life - magazines, postcards from other artists, notebooks, and perhaps most important, his library - from which she reconstructs the physical and conceptual world that Smithson inhabited. Reynolds explores the relation of Smithson's art-making, thinking about art-making, writing, and interaction with other artists to the articulated ideology and discreet assumptions that determined the parameters of artistic practice of the time."--Jacket
ER  -