| Artists on Robert Smithson Contributor(s): Smithson, Robert, Atkins, Katherine (Editor), Kivland, Kelly (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0944521916 ISBN-13: 9780944521915 Publisher: Dia Art Foundation OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Environmental & Land Art - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | Individual Artists - General |
| LCCN: 2020930338 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 7" (0.60 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Artists from Matthew Buckingham to Diana Thater address the rich legacy of Robert Smithson's films, sculptures and Spiral Jetty This is the fifth volume in a series that builds upon Dia Art Foundation's Artists on Artists lectures. The contributors to Artists on Robert Smithson engage with Smithson's work in myriad ways: Matthew Buckingham's essay highlights Smithson's preoccupation with the ways that histories of the earth are constructed and contested; Abraham Cruzvillegas considers Smithson's work with broken glass and architecture; Mark Dion's didactic approach to the life and work of the artist recounts the conceptual and evolutionary conditions that led to his birth and development; Teresita Fern ndez confronts the limitations of dominant histories of place, art and the monumental; Trevor Paglen considers Smithson's iconic spiral and his fascination with natural history; Rayyane Tabet weaves together a history of basalt that reveals themes of colonialism, surveillance and strife; and finally, engaging with the science fiction canon and its cinematic conventions, Diana Thater provides a close reading of Smithson's Spiral Jetty film. |