Robert Smithson American Landscape (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521827553)

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
ISBN-10: 0521827558
ISBN-13: 9780521827553
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2004
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 10.02h x 7.14w x 0.72d