Author : Hikmet Sidney Loe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781607815419
A twentieth-century master revealed the Great Salt Lake and a new way to think about art through a monumental rendition of one of nature's basic shapes
Author : George Thomas Baker
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN :
This book is devoted to the masterpiece earthwork of Robert Smithson.
Author : Robert Smithson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 1996-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520203853
Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most important artists of his generation, produced sculpture, drawings, photographs, films, and paintings in addition to the writings collected here.
Author : Hikmet Sidney Loe
Publisher :
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2017
Category : ART
ISBN : 9781607815426
"Since 1970 Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty has been a notable feature of the landscape and lakescape of the Great Salt Lake Valley. As more residents of the Wasatch Front have become aware of the artwork, especially since its initial reemergence in 1993 after a twenty-year long submersion in the lake, it has become a destination site for increasing numbers of day- trippers. It is also one of the most internationally famous art pieces of the late twentieth century, widely considered a central icon of the land art movement. This book covers the previously little-explored range of topics Smithson had in mind as he worked, many of which deal with place, including the particular place and space he found near here. It must necessarily refer to Smithson's narratives of his art--the essay and the films--so this book also contains a reprinting of the former and authorized transcriptions of the latter." -- Provided by publisher.
Author : The Onion
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 031613323X
Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's compendium of all things known. Replete with an astonishing assemblage of facts, illustrations, maps, charts, threats, blood, and additional fees to edify even the most simple-minded book-buyer, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge is packed with valuable information -- such as the life stages of an Aunt; places to kill one's self in Utica, New York; and the dimensions of a female bucket, or "pail." With hundreds of entries for all 27 letters of the alphabet, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge must be purchased immediately to avoid the sting of eternal ignorance.
Author : Robert Smithson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520244092
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Author : Ben Tufnell
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 1789040515
An attempt to melt an iceberg with a blowtorch, an indoor lake of tequila, an ascent of Mt Everest, driftwood burnt with sunlight focused through a magnifying glass and a doorbell that emits the sound of a dying star; these are some of the extraordinary artistic strategies covered in this collection. Gathering together texts published since 2002, as well as specially written new essays, In Land traces recent engagements with landscape, nature, environment and the cosmos.
Author : John Wesley Tunnell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 1603443371
A guide to seashells found in Texas that discusses the historical uses of mollusks and seashells, the history of conchology and malacology in the state, habitats, and other related topics, and provides information for identifying nine hundred species.
Author : Philip Ursprung
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520245415
This innovative study of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art--both what it is and where it is. Ursprung provides a sophisticated yet accessible analysis, placing the two artists firmly in the art world of the 1960s as well as in the art historical discourse of the following decades. Although their practices were quite different, they both extended the studio and gallery into desert landscapes, abandoned warehouses, industrial sites, train stations, and other spaces. Ursprung bolsters his argument with substantial archival research and sociological and economic models of expansion and limits.
Author : Jennifer L. Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300094978
Offering a critical analysis of Smithson's view of time, it provides comprehensive case studies of three of his most influential projects: "The Monuments of Passaic," a sardonic tour of a decaying New Jersey city conducted in the wake of the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act; "Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan," a textual-sculptural-photographic travelogue that coincided with a series of revolutionary discoveries about Maya history; and the Spiral Jetty."--BOOK JACKET.
