Robert Smithson and the American Landscape
Robert Smithson and the American Landscape
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USDThis 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.
- Provides context of the social history of the mining industry and the ecological movement in the 1960s
- Close readings of specific artworks
- Critical analysis of postmodern theory
Product details
April 2004Hardback
9780521827553
234 pages
255 × 181 × 20 mm
0.713kg
43 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: Grounding art history
- 1. Blasted landscapes
- 2. Prospecting for culture
- (n)onsite inspections
- 3. An aesthetic foreman in the mining industry
- 4. Lunar pastures
- Conclusion: Nature with class.
