Robert Smithson American Landscape

By Ron Graziani

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521827558
• ISBN13: 9780521827553
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"