However, it is also true that Smithson is one of the more difficult artists to pin down in terms of understanding Robert C. Morgan, Conceptual Art: An American Perspective (1994: MacFarland & Co. Inc. Publishers, North Carolina), 67. Slide projection of thirty-one 35mm color slides (126 format) and audio recording of a lecture by the artist at the University of Utah in 1972 (42 minutes, 57 seconds). Robert Smithson, American sculptor and writer associated with the Land Art movement. Indebted as his work is to Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, Vladimir Nabakov and Antonin Artaud this paper will argue for a distinctly literary examination of Robert Smithson's art. His large-scale sculptures, called Earthworks, engaged directly with nature and were created by moving and constructing with vast amounts of soil and rocks. Smithson’s work with site-specificity more broadly, the paper will argue that the earthwork exists most fully in the correspondence between writing and fact. Painted steel works such as Plunge (1966), Alogon #2 (1966), and Terminal (1966), employed industrial materials, geometric forms, and … Left side image: Robert Smithson, Hotel Palenque, dimensions variable 1969-72. Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to grow. Robert Smithson: Time Crystals Curated by Dr Amelia Barikin and Professor Chris McAuliffe Robert Smithson: Time Crystals is the first exhibition in Australia dedicated to the work of American artist Robert Smithson (1938-73). Possibly the most famous Land Art work ever created is Spiral Jetty, made in 1970 by Robert Smithson (1938-1973). Image courtesy: Solomon R. Additional Information: Perhaps most renowned as the creator of Spiral Jetty (1970), a fifteen-hundred-foot rock coil dramatically situated in the Great Salt Lake, Robert Smithson (1938–1973) also broke new ground with his films, photographs, writing, drawings, and collages. Robert Smithson’s Asphalt Rundown February 22, 2015 May 12, 2015 Lisa Martin Artifacts While it predates the invention of the Anthropocene term/concept by several decades, Robert Smithson’s artwork Asphalt Rundown (1969) both embodies and scrutinizes key aspects of the Anthropocene. Robert Smithson expressed a profound interest in the arts from an early age. 2. Best known for his radical land art of the 1960s and early 1970s, Smithson For two years, he was enrolled at The Art Students League in New York and, for a briefer period, at The Brooklyn Museum School. More so than most other artists of his generation, Robert Smithson is a figure who has encouraged something like a 'cult following', in which admiration for the man and for his work can be difficult to separate. robert..smithson:- the collected writings edited by jack flam university of california press tklkc(cy l.oshlfco~ london

Robert Smithson, the collected writings. Painted steel works such as Plunge (1966), Alogon #2 (1966), and Terminal (1966), employed industrial materials, geometric forms, and … Robert Smithson is an influential figure in the history of contemporary writing in creative practice. Robert Smithson is a seminal figure in the history of conceptual art. This iconic work was built by moving 6,000 tons of land from Utah’s Great Salt Lake to create a 1,500 foot-long rock spiral. 3. Get this from a library! When the drum delivered by National Starch and Chemical Company was pried open, its sticky contents were a garish orange—not the expected neutral grey. Smithson preferred to work with ruined or exhausted sites NB: All Smithson texts hereafter are cited from Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings so only the essay itself will be footnoted with the page number referred to as it is within The Collected Writings. This is an article from the Summer 2015 issue of Canadian Art..