TY - BOOK ID - 77859944 TI - Robert Smithson AU - Reynolds, Ann Morris AU - Smithson, Robert PY - 2003 SN - 9780585480826 0262282348 0585480826 9780262282345 9780585480824 0262182270 9780262182270 0262681552 9780262681551 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Visual Arts - General KW - Visual Arts KW - Art, Architecture & Applied Arts KW - Smithson, Robert KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77859944 AB - "Robert Smithson (1938-1973) produced his best-known work during the 1960's and early 1970's, 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 -