Robert Smithson

'Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American painter and land artist.

Publications

(in English unless noted)

Articles

• "Donald Judd," in 7 Sculptors, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, 1965; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 21-23.
• "The Crystal Land", Harper's Bazaar 3054, May 1966, pp 72-73; repr. in Writings, 1979, 19-20.
• "Entropy and the New Monuments", Artforum 5:10, Jun 1966, pp 26-31; repr. in Writings, 1979, 9-18.
  • "Entropía y los nuevos monumentos", in Smithson, Selección de escritos, Alias, 2009, pp 15-30. (Spanish)
• "Interpolation of the Enantiamorphic Chambers", in Art in Process: The Visual Development of a Structure, New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1966; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 39-40.
• with Mel Bochner, "The Domain of the Great Bear", Art Voices 5:4, Fall 1966, p 44-51; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 24-31.
• "Quasi-Infinities and the Waning of Space", Arts Magazine 41:1, Nov 1966, pp 28-31; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 32-36.
• "Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read", Dwan Gallery Press Release, Jun 1967; repr. in Writings, 1979, p 104.
• "Towards the Development of an Air Terminal Site", Artforum 6:10, Jun 1967, pp 36-40; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 41-47.
• "Ultramoderne", Arts Magazine 42:1, Sep/Oct 1967, pp 31-33; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 48-51.
• "Letter to the Editor", Artforum 6:2, Oct 1967, p 4; repr. in Writings, 1979, p 38.
• "Some Void Thoughts on Museums", Arts Magazine 42:2, Nov 1967, p 41; repr. in Writings, 1979, p 58.
• "The Monuments of Passaic", Artforum 7:4, Dec 1967, pp 48-51; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 52-57.
• "What is a Museum? A Dialogue with Allan Kaprow", Arts Yearbook, 1967, pp 94-107; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 59-66.
• "A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art", Art International 12:3, Mar 1968, pp 21-27; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 67-78.
• "The Establishment", Metro 14, Jun 1968; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 79-80.
• "Minus Twelve", in Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. Gregory Battcock, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968, pp 402-406; repr. in Writings, 1979, p 81.
• "A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects", Artforum 7:1, Sep 1968, pp 44-50; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 82-91.
• "Aerial Art", Studio International 175:89, Feb-Apr 1969, pp 180-181; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 92-93.
• "Incidents of Mirror - Travel in the Yucatan", Artforum 8:1, Sep 1969, pp 28-33; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 94-103.
• "Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction", Aspen 8, Fall/Winter 1970-71; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 129-131.
• "The Spiral Jetty", Dwan Gallery, poster for film in the form of a storyboard, 1970.
• "A Cinematic Atopia" Artforum, 10:1, Sep 1971, pp 53-55; repr. in Caderno Sesc Videobrasil 3, São Paulo: Associação Cultural Videobrasil, 2007, pp 70-73.
  • "Atopia cinemática", in Caderno Sesc Videobrasil 3, São Paulo: Associação Cultural Videobrasil, 2007, pp 66-69. (Brazilian Portuguese)
• "The Spiral Jetty", in Arts of the Environment, ed. Gyorgy Kepes, New York: G. Braziller, 1972, pp 222-232; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 109-116.
  • "El malecón espiral", trans. Nely Coarasa, El arte del ambiente, Buenos Aires: Victor Leru, 1978. (Spanish)
• "Cultural Confinement", Artforum 11:2, Oct 1972, p 32; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 132-133.
• "Hotel Palenque, 1969-1972" [1972], Parkett 43, 1995, pp 117-132. Lecture given to architecture students at the University of Utah, 1972. (English)/(German)
• "Frederick Law Olmstead and the Dialectical Landscape", Artforum 11:6, Feb 1973, pp 62-68; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 117-128.
• "The Establishment", Documentario, Jan 1993, pp 78-79.

Interviews

• Anthony Robbins, "Smithson's Non-Sites Sights", Art News 67:10, Feb 1969, p 50; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 157-159.
• Thomas Leavitt, "Earth" [Feb 1969], Writings, 1979, pp 160-167. Symposium at White Museum, Cornell University.
• William C. Lipke, "Fragments of a Conversation" [Feb 1969], Writings, 1979, pp 168-170.
• P.A. Norvell, "Robert Smithson: Fragments of An Interview with P.A. Norvell, April, 1969", eds. Lucy R. Lippard and Robert Smithson, in Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, New York: Praeger, 1973, pp 87-90
• Dennis Wheeler, "Four Conversations between Dennis Wheeler and Robert Smithson, December 1969-January 1970", in Robert Smithson Unearthed, ed. Tsai, 1991, pp 93-126.
• Paul Toner, "Interview with Robert Smithson", 1970.
• [Liza Bear, Willoughby Sharp], "Discussion with Heizer, Oppenheim, Smithson", Avalanche 1:1, Fall 1970, pp 48-71; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 171-178.
• Gregoire Mueller, "... Earth, Subject to Cataclysms, Is a Cruel Master" Arts Magazine 46:2, Nov 1971, pp 36-41; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 179-185.
• Bruce Kurtz, "Conversation with Robert Smithson on April 22nd 1972", The Fox II, 1975, pp 72-76; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 200-204.
• Paul Cummings, "Interview with Robert Smithson for the Archives of American Art/Smithsonian Institution" [14 & 19 Jul 1972], Writings, 1979, pp 137-156.
• Gianni Pettena, "Conversation in Salt Lake City", Domus 516, Nov 1972, pp 53-56; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 186-188.
• Moira Roth, "Robert Smithson on Duchamp: An Interview", Artforum 12:2, Oct 1973, p 47; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 197-199.
• Alison Sky, "Entropy Made Visible", On Site 4, Fall 1973, p 26-30; repr. in Writings, 1979, pp 189-196.
• "Spiral Jetty", movie treatment photo from John Weber Gallery, New York.
• "Absurd View", 1970, drawing.
• "Robert Smithson's Amarillo Ramp", Avalanche 8, Fall 1973.
• "The Spiral Jetty", Big Deal 3, New York City, p 3.
• Boettger, Suzaan, "Robert Smithson", interview by Willoughby Sharp (1969), Art in America, New York, Dec 1998, pp 75-81.
• Lucy R. Lippard, "Out of the Past: Lucy Lippard Talks about Eva Hesse with Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson," ArtForum, 2008. Reprinted.

The Collected Writings, 1996, Log.

Collected works, writings and interviews

• The Writings of Robert Smithson, ed. Nancy Holt, New York University Press, 1979; rev. & exp. ed. as The Collected Writings, ed. & intro. Jack Flam, University of California Press, 1996, xxviii+389 pp.
• Robert Smithson Unearthed: Drawings, Collages, Writings, ed. Eugenie Tsai, Columbia University Press, 1991.
• Robert Smithson Slide Works, ed. Guglielmo Bargellesi, 1997. Text by Vicki Goldberg, Carlo Frua.
• Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, eds. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, University of California Press / DIA Art Foundation, 2005.
• Selección de escritos, ed. Sara Schulz, trans. María Orvañanos and Eva Quintana Crelis, Alias, 2009, 186 pp. Selection of writings from 1966-73. (Spanish)
• Robert Smithson: Art in Continual Movement, eds. Ingrid Commandeur and Trudy van Riemsdijk-Zandee, Amsterdam: Alauda Publications, 2012.
• Τέσσερα Κείμενα, Topovoros, 2013. Four texts by Smithson. (Greek)

Bibliography

• at RobertSmithson.com

Literature

Books

• Robert Hobbs, Robert Smithson: Sculpture, Cornell University Press, 1981. With contributions by Lawrence Alloway, John Coplans, Lucy R. Lippard.
• Gary Shapiro, Earthworks: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel, University of California Press, 1995.
• Ann Reynolds, Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere, MIT Press, 2003, 384 pp.
• Philip Ursprung, Grenzen der Kunst: Allan Kaprow und das Happening. Robert Smithson und die Land Art, Munich: Silke Schreiber, 2003. (German)
• Jennifer L. Roberts, Mirror Travels: Robert Smithson and History, Yale University Press, 2004.
• Ron Graziani, Robert Smithson and the American Landscape, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Simon Dell, Alistair Rider, William Wood, On Location: Siting Robert Smithson and His Contemporaries, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2009.

Articles

• Thomas Dreher, "Robert Smithson: Land Reclamation and the Sublime", trans. Gerard A. Goodrow and Andreas Fritsch, Arte Factum 45, Oct/Nov 1992, pp 26-30.
• Neville Wakefield, "Yucatan is Elsewhere: On Robert Smithson's Hotel Palenque / Yucatan ist anderswo. Ueber Robert Smithson Hotel Palenque", trans. Susanne Schmidt, Parkett 43, 1995, p 133-138. (English)/(German)

Links

• http://www.robertsmithson.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smithson
• http://artforum.com/contributors/name=robert-smithson