Mirror-travels : Robert Smithson and history / Jennifer L. Roberts.

Main entry:

Roberts, Jennifer L., 1969-

Title & Author:

Mirror-travels : Robert Smithson and history / Jennifer L. Roberts.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004.

Description:

x, 162 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

Yale publications in the history of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History in Smithson's religious paintings -- The deposition of time -- Forgetting Passaic -- Smithson and Stephens in Yucatan -- Spiral jetyy/Golden spike.

Summary:

"Robert Smithson (1938-1973), an artist of paramount importance in postwar America, created radical new perspectives for landscape architecture, photography, art criticism, and site-specific installation. His Spiral Jetty - a 1,500-foot-long coil of rock built in 1970 at the edge of the Great Salt Lake - is widely appreciated as one of the most significant art projects of the twentieth century. Less well known is the fact that the Jetty lies just a few miles from the Golden Spike National Historic Site, location of the completion of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad almost exactly a century earlier. The connection between the Spiral Jetty and the Golden Spike is but one facet of an entire complex of historical reference and reflection that structures Smithson's work." "Mirror-Travels presents the first thorough investigation of Smithson's encounter with this and other histories as it focuses on the artist's idea of history itself. Spanning Smithson's career, from his little-known early religious paintings to his canonical earthworks of the 1970s, the book argues that Smithson's experiments with memory and temporality, along with his concern with what he called "continuance"--A form of historical connection to the past - cannot be properly understood without attending closely to the specific histories of the sites he engaged. Offering a critical analysis of Smithson's view of time, it provides comprehensive case studies of three of his most influential projects: "The Monuments of Passaic," a sardonic tour of a decaying New Jersey city conducted in the wake of the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act; "Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan," a textual-sculptural-photographic travelogue that coincided with a series of revolutionary discoveries about Maya history; and the Spiral Jetty."--Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0300094973 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
9780300094978 (hard cover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Smithson, Robert Criticism and interpretation.
Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973 Criticism and interpretation.
Smithson, Robert Critique et interprétation.
Smithson, Robert.
Smithson, Robert 1938-1973
Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973.
Land art.
Historische motieven.
Earthworks (Art) United States.

Form/genre:

Bildband.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Smithson, Robert.
Yale publications in the history of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231492
Call No.: N44.S6645 R6 2004
Status: Available

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