Title & Author:

Robert Smithson : Spiral jetty : true fictions, false realities / with texts by George Baker [and others] and an interview with Robert Smithson by Kenneth Baker ; edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly with Bettina Funcke and Barbara Schröder.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : In cooperation with Dia Art Foundation, ©2005.

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-205).
The spiral jetty / Robert Smithson -- The spiral jetty : a visual diary, 1970-2005 -- "a position of elsewhere" / Lynne Cooke -- At the jetty / Ann Reynolds -- The cinema model / George Baker -- Smithson, writer / Lytle Shaw -- Talking with Robert Smithson / Kenneth Baker -- A man becomes unstuck in time in the film that became a classic! / Diana Thater -- Building the jetty / Bob Phillips -- Footnote to the spiral jetty expedition / Catherine Phillips.
With texts by George Baker, Lynne Cooke, Bob Phillips, Catherine Phillips, Ann Reynolds, Lytle Shaw, Robert Smithson and Diana Thater.

Summary:

"Thirty years after his untimely death, Robert Smithson (1938-1973) remains one of the most influential artists of his generation. His complex ideas took root in many forms, including drawings, projects, proposals, sculpture, earthworks, films, and critical writings. Although made in a brief span from the mid-sixties to the early seventies, Smithson's provocative works redefined the language of sculpture. Several months after being included in the seminal exhibition "Primary Structures" at New York's Jewish Museum in 1966, he had his first significant solo exhibition at Dwan Gallery, where he would later curate the exhibition "Earthworks" (1968). His iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty was built at Rozel Point, in the Great Salt Lake in April 1970. Constituted of black basalt rocks and earth, Spiral Jetty forms a coil fifteen-hundred-feet long and fifteen-feet wide, that stretches out counter-clockwise into the lake's viscous red water. Smithson's film Spiral Jetty was completed later that year, and the third component in this ensemble, an essay also titled "The Spiral Jetty" was published in 1972. In 1999, the Estate of Robert Smithson donated the sculpture to Dia Art Foundation, New York."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520245547 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520245549 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Smithson, Robert. Spiral Jetty.
Smithson, Robert Criticism and interpretation.
Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973.
Smithson, Robert. Spiral jetty.
Smithson, Robert Critique et interprétation.
Smithson, Robert.
Smithson, Robert 1938-1973 Spiral Jetty
Smithson, Robert , 1938-1973.
Spiral jetty (Smithson, Robert)
Earthworks (Art) Utah.
Land art Utah.
21.99 other art forms.
Earthworks (Art) .
Earthworks (Art)
Land art.
Utah.

Form/genre:

Bildband.
Interviews.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Baker, George (George Thomas), 1970-
Cooke, Lynne.
Kelly, Karen J., 1964-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247130
Call No.: N44.S6645 R64 2005
Status: Available