Robert Smithson

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ISBN: 9780520203853 | 0520203852
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/1996

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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. In addition to a new introduction by Jack Flam, The Collected Writings includes previously unpublished essays by Smithson and gathers hard-to-find articles, interviews, and photographs. Together these provide a full picture of his wide-ranging views on art and culture.

Preface
Introduction: Reading Robert Smithson
Biographical Note
Quick Millions (1965)	p. 3
Donald Judd (1965)	p. 4
The Crystal Land (1966)	p. 7
Entropy and the New Monuments (1966)	p. 10
The X Factor in Art (1966)	p. 24
The Domain of the Great Bear (1966)	p. 26
Quasi-Infinities and the Waning of Space (1966)	p. 34
The Cryosphere (1966)	p. 38
Interpolation of the Enantiomorphic Chambers (1966)	p. 39
Some Void Thoughts on Museums (1967)	p. 41
What is a Museum? A Dialogue Between Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson (1967)	p. 43
Towards the Development of an Air Terminal Site (1967)	p. 52
Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read (1967)	p. 61
Ultramoderne (1967)	p. 62
Letter to the Editor (1967)	p. 66
A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey (1967)	p. 68
Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction (1970)	p. 75
A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art (1968)	p. 78
A Thing is a Hole in a Thing It is Not (1968)	p. 95
The Establishment (1968)	p. 97
A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects (1968)	p. 100
Minus Twelve (1968)	p. 114
Aerial Art (1969)	p. 116
Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan (1969)	p. 119
The Artist and Politics: A Symposium (1970)	p. 134
Gyrostasis (1970)	p. 136
A Cinematic Atopia (1971)	p. 138
The Spiral Jetty (1972)	p. 143
Cultural Confinement (1972)	p. 154
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape (1973)	p. 157
Smithson's Non-Site Sights / Anthony Robbin (1969)	p. 175
Earth / Thomas W. Leavitt (1969)	p. 177
Fragments of a Conversation / William C. Lipke (1969)	p. 188
Fragments of an Interview with Patsy Norvell (1969)	p. 192
Four Conversations Between Dennis Wheeler and Robert Smithson / Edited by Eva Schmidt (1969-1970)	p. 196
Interview with Robert Smithson / Paul Toner (1970)	p. 234
Discussions with Heizer, Oppenheim, Smithson / Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp (1970)	p. 242
"...The Earth, Subject to Cataclysms, is a Cruel Master" / Gregoire Muller (1971)	p. 253
Conversation with Robert Smithson / Bruce Kurtz (1972)	p. 262
Interview with Robert Smithson for the Archives of American Art / Smithsonian Institution / Paul Cummings (1972)	p. 270
Conversation in Salt Lake City / Gianni Pettena (1972)	p. 297
Entropy Made Visible / Alison Sky (1973)	p. 301
Robert Smithson on Duchamp / Moira Roth (1973)	p. 310
From the Temptations	p. 315
From the Walls of Dis	p. 316
From the City	p. 317
To the Eye of Blood	p. 318
The Lamentations of the Paroxysmal Artist	p. 319
The Iconography of Desolation (c. 1962)	p. 320
The Eliminator (1964)	p. 327
The Hum (c. 1965)	p. 328
A Short Description of Two Mirrored Crystal Structures (1965)	p. 328
Response to a Questionnaire from Irving Sandler (1966)	p. 329
Colossal Nullifications (Part I) (c. 1966)	p. 331
Atlantic City (H-13) (1966)	p. 332
The Shape of the Future and Memory (1966)	p. 332
Predictable Model for Unpredictable Project (c. 1966)	p. 333
Proposal for the Detection of Approximate Period Quantity (c. 1966)	p. 334
An Esthetics of Disappointment (c. 1966)	p. 334
Sol Lewitt (1966-67)	p. 335
A Refutation of Historical Humanism (1966-67)	p. 336
The Pathetic Fallacy in Esthetics (1966-67)	p. 337
Abstract Mannerism (1966-67)	p. 339
The Artist as Site-Seen, or, a Dintorphic Essay (1966-67)	p. 340
What Really Spoils Michelangelo's Sculpture (1966-67)	p. 346
From Ivan the Terrible to Roger Corman or Paradoxes of Conduct in Mannerism as Reflected in the Cinema (1967)	p. 349
Proposal for Earthworks and Landmarks to be Built on the Fringes of the Fort Worth-Dallas Regional Air Terminal Site (1966-67)	p. 354
Untitled (Air Terminal - Windows) (1967)	p. 355
See the Monuments of Passaic New Jersey (1967)	p. 356
The Monument Outline for a Film (1967)	p. 357
Pointless Vanishing Points (1967)	p. 358
A Small Test for Jo Baer (1968)	p. 360
Outline for Yale Symposium Against Absolute Categories (1968)	p. 360
Sites and Settings (1968)	p. 362
Untitled (Site Data) (1968)	p. 362
A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites (1968)	p. 364
Non-Site Number 2 (1968)	p. 365
Hidden Trails in Art (1969)	p. 366
Can Man Survive? (1969)	p. 367
Letter to Gyorgy Kepes (1969)	p. 369
Look (1970)	p. 370
Art and Dialectics (1971)	p. 370
Art Through the Camera's Eye (c. 1971)	p. 371
Untitled (1971)	p. 376
Letter to John Dixon (1972)	p. 377
Production for Production's Sake (1972)	p. 378
Untitled (1972)	p. 379
Proposal (1972)	p. 379
Glossary of Names	p. 381
Bibliography	p. 384
Index	p. 387
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