Robert Smithson's Vancouver Sojourn - Canadian Art.

Twenty six years after Robert Smithson’s tragic death in an airplane crash, it is now clear that he is one of the most important post-war artists. His famous “Spiral Jetty” in the Great Salt Lake in Utah, USA, secured his place as one of the pioneer earth-works artists; but he was also an active contributor to the cultural criticism that has shaped the thought and creativity of recent.

During the early to mid-1960s, Smithson was perhaps better known as a writer and art critic, writing numerous essays and reviews for Arts Magazine and Artforum.He became affiliated with artists who were identified with the minimalist movement, such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Nancy Holt, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris and others.

Robert Smithson (1938-1973) was the pioneer of land and earthworks art. He was also a noted sculptor, painter, writer, and lecturer working primarily in New York City. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Smithson expressed an early interest in art, enrolling in classes at the Brooklyn Museum School and the Art Student's League in New York while still.

Robert Smithson by Jennifer Padgett. Robert Smithson combined drawing with photography in Bingham Copper Mining Pit—Utah Reclamation Project (1973; fig. 1), a presentation work that is part of his Reclamation series. He began with a photograph of a specific site—the Bingham Copper Mining Pit in Utah—and then superimposed his drawing on it by placing a transparent plastic overlay on the.

James Cohan Gallery opened its new space on the Lower East Side with an exhibition of seldom-seen drawings and sculptural assemblages made by Robert Smithson between 1963 and 1964, several years.

During the early to mid-1960s, Smithson was perhaps better known as a writer and art critic, writing numerous essays and reviews for Arts Magazine and Artforum. He became affiliated with artists who were identified with the minimalist movement, such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Nancy Holt, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris and others. In 1963, Smithson married sculptor and filmmaker Nancy Holt and a.

Robert Smithson is an influential figure in the history of contemporary writing in creative practice. Indebted as his work is to Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, Vladimir Nabakov and Antonin Artaud this paper will argue for a distinctly literary examination of Robert Smithson's art. Smithson is best known for his earth-works such as The Spiral Jetty (1972) and Asphalt Rundown (1969) in which he.

Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized in Italy between 1966 and 1972: Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Newspaper Sphere (Sfera di giornali), Robert Smithson’s Asphalt Rundown, and Joseph Beuys’s Arena.These works all utilized non-traditional materials, collaborative.

Smithson is best known for his earthworks, such as Spiral Jetty (see below), the Asphalt rundown pieces and his non-site sculptures, which all radically intervened in and transformed the artistic practices of the late sixties and early seventies, in terms of Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Land Art.

Non-archival library books, periodicals, and phonographs from Robert Smithson's personal library are currently stored offsite. Related Material The Archives also holds several collections related to Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt, including an oral history interview with Robert Smithson conducted by Paul Cummings in 1972.

Series 5: The papers of sculptor, writer, and earthworks artist Robert Smithson and his wife, sculptor, filmmaker, and earthworks artist Nancy Holt measure.

Robert Smithson's Partially Buried Woodshed Essay by Dorothy Shinn. Foreword T his catalogue and exhibition on Robert Smithson's Partially Buried Woodshed reflect 2 the Gallery's long-term commitment to exhibiting and documenting the work of innovative twentieth century artists. The Gallery is especially interested in those artists and works that have a special connection to northeastern Ohio.