Robert Smithson American Landscape

This volume comprises a social history of Robert Smithson's earthworks and their critical reception. In his analysis of the artist's personal writings and art works, Ron Graziani demonstrates how the earthworks were part of an aesthetic and civic fault line that ruptured in the 1960s. Moreover, Graziani reveals how Smithson's earthworks formed part of the new conservationism in the late 1960s and how it gave material form to the contradictions of a sociological issue, inseparable from its economic legacy.

Author: Ron Graziani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/08/2004
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 10.02h x 7.14w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780521827553