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- catalog abstract ""Robert Smithson (1938-1973) produced his best-known work during the 1960s and early 1970s, 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.".
- catalog alternative "Learning from New Jersey and elsewhere".
- catalog contributor b12839748.
- catalog contributor b12839749.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Robert Smithson (1938-1973) produced his best-known work during the 1960s and early 1970s, 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.".
- catalog description "Culture as a way of seeing -- Perceiving abstraction -- The Alogons -- Abstraction's ambiguities -- The lessons of optical art -- Perceptual enantiomorphs -- New Jersey -- The crystal land -- Perspective: the metropolis -- A guide to the monuments of Passaic -- Travel as repetition -- A cartogrpahic premise -- The terminal view -- Yucatan is elsewhere -- Dirt as disorder -- Buried architecture -- Trespassing -- Image crisis.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 364 p. [6] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0262182270 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog subject "700 21".
- catalog subject "N6537.S6184 R48 2002".
- catalog subject "Smithson, Robert Archives.".
- catalog subject "Smithson, Robert Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Culture as a way of seeing -- Perceiving abstraction -- The Alogons -- Abstraction's ambiguities -- The lessons of optical art -- Perceptual enantiomorphs -- New Jersey -- The crystal land -- Perspective: the metropolis -- A guide to the monuments of Passaic -- Travel as repetition -- A cartogrpahic premise -- The terminal view -- Yucatan is elsewhere -- Dirt as disorder -- Buried architecture -- Trespassing -- Image crisis.".
- catalog title "Learning from New Jersey and elsewhere".
- catalog title "Robert Smithson : learning from New Jersey and elsewhere / Ann Reynolds.".
- catalog type "Archives. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".