Matthew Buckingham, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mark Dion, Teresita Fernández, Trevor Paglen, Rayyane Tabet, Diana Thater on Robert Smithson /
This is the fifth volume in a series that builds upon Dia Art Foundation's 'Artists on Artists' lectures. The contributors to 'Artists on Robert Smithson' engage with Smithson's work in myriad ways: Matthew Buckingham's essay highlights Smithson's preoccupatio...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Dia Art Foundation,
[2020]
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| Series: | Artists on artists lecture series.
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| Summary: | This is the fifth volume in a series that builds upon Dia Art Foundation's 'Artists on Artists' lectures. The contributors to 'Artists on Robert Smithson' engage with Smithson's work in myriad ways: Matthew Buckingham's essay highlights Smithson's preoccupation with the ways that histories of the earth are constructed and contested; Abraham Cruzvillegas considers Smithson's work with broken glass and architecture; Mark Dion's didactic approach to the life and work of the artist recounts the conceptual and evolutionary conditions that led to his birth and development; Teresita Fernández confronts the limitations of dominant histories of place, art and the monumental; Trevor Paglen considers Smithson's iconic spiral and his fascination with natural history; Rayyane Tabet weaves together a history of basalt that reveals themes of colonialism, surveillance and strife; and finally, engaging with the science fiction canon and its cinematic conventions, Diana Thater provides a close reading of Smithson's Spiral Jetty film. |
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| Physical Description: | 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780944521915 0944521916 |