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Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty
from: University of California Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 730.92
EAN: 9780520245549
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0520245547
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: September 05, 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press
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Editorial Review:
In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point on Utah's Great Salt Lake. This dramatic and highly influential work forms a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide and stretches out counterclockwise into the lake's translucent red water. Composed of black basalt rocks and earth, the sculpture comprises the materials of its location: mud, salt crystals, rocks, water.
The contributors to this comprehensive publication consider the sculpture in relation to its eponymous companions--a text work and a film. These essays situate this renowned series of works alongside Smithson's critical writings, proposals, drawings, sources, and models. Amply illustrated with archival and new photographs of the Jetty and many comparative illustrations, this book makes evident why Smithson's art and writings have had such a powerful impact on art and art theory for over thirty years.
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