A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects.
Robert Smithson, “Spiral Jetty” (1970) I asked Kelly Kivland, a curator at Dia Art Foundation, which owns “Spiral Jetty,” what this means for the artist’s vision. The idea of entropy.
Now if only the Whitney could return the island's earth and trees to northern New Jersey, in true homage to Robert Smithson's origins and to entropy. The ceremonial tree planting instead made me think of Earth Day, whereas his environmental ideal and environmental art had more to do with salt, rock, the human imprint, and decay than with an ecosystem's organic growth and sense of repose.
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. Smithson's wife, Nancy Holt (1938-) was a noted sculptor and filmmaker and also worked as an earthworks artist.
Robert Smithson: Time Crystals. Monash University Museum of Art, 21 July—22 September 2018. By Francis Plagne. More so than most other artists of his generation, Robert Smithson is a figure who has encouraged something like a 'cult following', in which admiration for the man and for his work can be difficult to separate. In writing about.
Nonsites” in Robert Hobbs’s Robert Smithson: Sculpture (1981), the first book-length treatment of Smithson’s sculpture. Alloway also afforded Smithson a central role in his two-part essay “Artists as Writers,” published in Artforum in March and April 1974.10 My essay draws extensively from these published sources. It explores Smithson.
Smithson further implies in this essay that what distinguishes the Picturesque is that it is based on real land (3) For Smithson, a park exists as “a process of ongoing relationships existing in a physical region” (4) Smithson was interested in Central Park as a landscape which by the 1970s had weathered and grown as Olmsted’s creation, but was layered with new evidence of human.
Robert Smithson focused his short but influential career on a reconsideration of the nature of sculpture—or, rather, of sculpture in relation to nature. He began his career as a painter but in the mid-1960s started to experiment in different media, including sculpture, writing, drawing, film, and eventually, earthworks. In the late 1960s, his work increasingly revolved around the.