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Author: Elyse Goldberg
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780984680948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatalogue printed on the occasion of the exhibition 'Robert Smithson in Texas' at the Dallas Museum of Art, November 24, 2013 - April 27, 2014
Author: Robert Smithson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780520244092
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Author: Ann Reynolds
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004-10-01
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780262681551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the interplay between cultural context and artistic practice in the work of Robert Smithson. Robert Smithson (1938-1973) produced his best-known work during the 1960s and early 1970s, a period in which the boundaries of the art world and the objectives of art-making were questioned perhaps more consistently and thoroughly than any time before or since. In Robert Smithson, Ann Reynolds elucidates the complexity of Smithson's work and thought by placing them in their historical context, a context greatly enhanced by the vast archival materials that Smithson's widow, Nancy Holt, donated to the Archives of American Art in 1987. The archive provides Reynolds with the remnants of Smithson's working life—magazines, postcards from other artists, notebooks, and perhaps most important, his library—from which she reconstructs the physical and conceptual world that Smithson inhabited. Reynolds explores the relation of Smithson's art-making, thinking about art-making, writing, and interaction with other artists to the articulated ideology and discreet assumptions that determined the parameters of artistic practice of the time. A central focus of Reynolds's analysis is Smithson's fascination with the blind spots at the center of established ways of seeing and thinking about culture. For Smithson, New Jersey was such a blind spot, and he returned there again and again—alone and with fellow artists—to make art that, through its location alone, undermined assumptions about what and, more important, where, art should be. For those who guarded the integrity of the established art world, New Jersey was "elsewhere"; but for Smithson, "elsewheres" were the defining, if often forgotten, locations on the map of contemporary culture.
Author: Robert Smithson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1996-04-10
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780520203853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most important artists of his generation, produced sculpture, drawings, photographs, films, and paintings in addition to the writings collected here.
Author: Amy Von Lintel
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2020-04-30
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1623498503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle, to take a position as art teacher for the newly organized Amarillo Public Schools. Subsequently she would join the faculty at what was then West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas A&M University). Already a thoroughly independent-minded woman, she maintained an active correspondence with her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and other friends back east during the years she lived in Texas. Amy Von Lintel brings to readers the collected O’Keeffe correspondence and added commentary and analysis, shining fresh light on a period of the artist’s life she characterizes as “some of the least appreciated in the vast O’Keeffe scholarship,” but also as “a time when she discovered her own voice as a young, successful, and independent woman . . . a dedicated faculty member at a brand-new college . . . a vibrant social butterfly . . . a progressive woman who spoke her mind and fought for her beliefs to be heard.” Although selected paintings by O’Keeffe that support the narrative are featured, this work focuses on O’Keeffe’s words. By doing so, Von Lintel aims to allow the artist’s voice to “emerge as a powerful witness of her own life, but also of western America in a pivotal moment of its development.” The result is an important new examination of one of our most beloved artists during a time when she was in the process of discovering her future identity.
Author: James Meyer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-09-11
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 022662014X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring “I have a dream!” or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels, the revolutionary sixties resonates around the world: China’s communist government inaugurated a new cultural era, African nations won independence from colonial rule, and students across Europe took to the streets, calling for an end to capitalism, imperialism, and the Vietnam War. In this innovative work, James Meyer turns to art criticism, theory, memoir, and fiction to examine the fascination with the long sixties and contemporary expressions of these cultural memories across the globe. Meyer draws on a diverse range of cultural objects that reimagine this revolutionary era stretching from the 1950s to the 1970s, including reenactments of civil rights, antiwar, and feminist marches, paintings, sculptures, photographs, novels, and films. Many of these works were created by artists and writers born during the long Sixties who were driven to understand a monumental era that they missed. These cases show us that the past becomes significant only in relation to our present, and our remembered history never perfectly replicates time past. This, Meyer argues, is precisely what makes our contemporary attachment to the past so important: it provides us a critical opportunity to examine our own relationship to history, memory, and nostalgia.
Author: Leigh A. Arnold
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis dissertation describes and analyzes the work of American earthworks, conceptual, and installation artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973) in Texas and other geographical locations. Beginning in 1966 with the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, to the films and material maps completed in the years immediately before the artist’s accidental death in 1973, this dissertation highlights unfinished projects in Texas, New York, New Jersey, Florida, Vancouver, and Mexico, as a means of repositioning these peripheral works within the central Smithson canon. In these geographical “others,” Smithson was free to experiment with new technologies like television broadcasting and film making. He was also able to expand the scale of his work to the monumental and eventually, to the monumentally kinetic, when he proposed to barge a garden island around the even bigger island of Manhattan. The artist’s interest in the sciences of crystallography, cartography, and biology would serve as his guide in navigating his various interests and attempts to realize both the monumental and ephemeral. Through an examination of proposals, film treatments, photographs, and films, this study demonstrates how Smithson spent the greater part of his mature career outside of the central New York art scene in peripheral areas that were transformed into the new centers of his art. Smithson produced many drawings and conceived several earthworks for projects and sites related to Texas-based works. Projects like the DFW Airport have already been noted for their role in Smithson’s development toward the concept of large-scale earthworks; however, this dissertation brings focus to lesser-known projects proposed throughout Texas that demonstrate the artist working through a variety of ideas that are better known for their realized counterparts completed elsewhere. While other peripheral areas played a role as nonsites or regional “others,” Texas is the central focus of this dissertation, as I argue that Texas—with its fathomless limits and outsider status—catalyzed crucial aspects of Smithson’s career.
Author: Robert Smithson
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Abraham Cruzvillegas
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781873331330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutoconstrucciÃ[3]n accompanies Cruzvillegas' exhibition at CCA Glasgow, the result of a six month joint residency at CCA and Cove Park by the Mexican artist. In the exhibition, the artist charts the evolution of his family's house and finds, in its making, the roots of his current sculptural practice. Cruzvillegas was brought up in an area of Mexico City called Ajusco. Driven by necessity the community was built through collaboration which bred a system of social and political solidarity. It was a culture of hybridity and the model of construction became intertwined with the model for living. For Abraham Cruzvillegas that context provided a metaphor for the self-conscious process of creating an identity and methodology for the construction of his artistic practice. In AutoconstrucciÃ[3]n he draws together a diverse series of elements including an exhibition, a series of musical performances, a ride across a city and a book, and through all of this work, it is the concept of sharing that is a key element, framed by a makeshift DIY aesthetic. English and Spanish text.
Author: Erin Hogan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0226348482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some. “I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out . . . or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unashamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn’t magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing.”—Tom Vanderbilt, New YorkTimes Book Review “The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted. . . . Casually scrutinizing the artistic works . . . while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history.”—Atlantic “Smart and unexpectedly hilarious.”—Kevin Nance, ChicagoSun-Times “One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time.”—June Sawyers, ChicagoTribune “Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions.”—New Yorker
