
ROBERT SMITHSON
1938, Passaic, New Jersey - 1973 (plane crash while surveying a site for a new work in Amarillo, Texas)
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| Strata a Geophotographic Fiction [submission to Aspen Magazine # 8] | Aspen Magazine # 8 | 1970-1 |
| Torn Photograph from the Second Stop (Rubble). Second Mountain of 6 Stops in a Section [from the Artists and Photographs Box] | Multiples, Inc. | 1970 |
| POSTER / EPHEMERA | ||
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| Asphalt Rundown [large poster] | Lattico Roma via Cesare Beccaria 22 | 1969 |
| Earth Works [large invitation card - sand] | Virginia Dawn Gallery | 1968 |
| Fossil Quarry Mirror [individual mailed announcement card for work in Land Art exhibition] | Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum, Berlin | 1969 |
| Great Salt Lake Utah - Spiral Jetty [poster] | Virginia Dwan Gallery | 1970 |
| Great Salt Lake Utah - Spiral Jetty [10 b&w stills from the film] | Virginia Dwan Gallery | 1970 |
| Nonsites (Mono Lake) [invitation] | Virginia Dwan Gallery | 1969 |
| Robert Smithson [poster - noshtimssmithson ] | Virginia Dwan Gallery | 1966-7 |
| Robert Smithson [poster/announcement - radiating lines - based on "Leaning Strata",1968 - re: p. 152, Robert Smithson, 2004, Tsai] | Virginia Dwan Gallery | 1968 |
| ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS BY SMITHSON | ||
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| A museum of language in the vicinity of art | Art International, March | 1968 |
| A sedimentation of the mind: earth projects | Artforum, September | 1968 |
| Cayuga Salt Mine Site [1969] | in: The New Sculpture 1965-75: Between Geometry and Gesture | 1990 |
| Cultural Confinement [regarding Documenta 5 and other curated exhibitions] | Artforum, October | 1972 |
| Entropy and the new monuments | Artforum, June | 1966 |
| Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape | Artforum, February | 1973 |
| Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan | Artforum, September | 1969 |
| "...The earth, subject to cataclysms is a cruel master" | Arts Magazine, November | 1971 |
| [Special Issue: Robert Smithson] | Arts Magazine, May | 1978 |
| OTHER ARTICLES OR INTERWITHS BY OR WITH SMITHSON | ||
| Discussion with Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Smithson | in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | 1996 |
| Joint Statement [presented as an ad] in Artforum regarding exhibitions and artists rights (in response to Documenta 5) | Artforum, June | 1972 |
| Entropy made Visible - Interview with Alison Sky | On Site #4 - Not Seen and/or Less Seen of... | 1973 |
| The Establishment (courtesy Nancy Holt) | New Observations #17 | 1983 |
| The Spiral Jetty | in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | 1996 |
| OTHER PUBLICATIONS | ||
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| John Weber Gallery Newsletter | John Weber Gallery | 1975 |
| On Site #4 - Not Seen and/or Less Seen of... | Site, Inc., New York | 1973 |
| Pan - ic [poetry publication with Smithson cover.] | Pan, Number 2, New York | 1958 |
| Projects Class (12 artists / 12 cards - submitted to class) | Nova Scotia College of Art and Design | 1969 |
| The Museum of Drawers | Kunsthaus Zurich | 1978 |
| INDIVIDUAL CATALOGUES | ||
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| Robert Smithson | MoCA, Los Angeles | 2004 |
| Robert Smithson: Drawings | The New York Cultural Center | 1974 |
| Robert Smithson: Retrospective | Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris | 1983 |
| Robert Smithson: Sculpture | The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell | 1980 |
| Robert Smithson: Sculpture 1968-69 | John Weber Gallery | 1987 |
| CATALOGUES INCLUDING SMITHSON | ||
| A Different War: Vietnam in Art [mentioned in Lippard's essays, not in the exhibition] | Independent Curators Incorporated, New York [traveled] | 1990 |
| A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation [not in exhibition but mentioned in catalogue essay by Anne Rorimer: Photography - Language - Context: Prellude to the 1980s] | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | 1989 |
| Afterimage: Drawing Through Process | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | 1999 |
| A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A. | 2004 |
| Art by Telephone | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | 1969 |
| A Second Talent: Painters and Sculptors Who are Also Photographers | The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art | 1985 |
| As Painting: Division and Displacement | Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus | 2001 |
| A View of a Decade 1967-1977 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | 1977 |
| Behind the Facts: Interfunktionen 1968-1975 | Fundacio Jan Miro, Barcelona | 2004 |
| Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | 2004 |
| Blurring the Boundries: Installation Art 1969-1996 | Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego | 1996 |
| Breakthroughs: Avant-Garde Artists in Europe and America, 1950-1990 | Wexner Center for the Arts | 1991 |
| Connections: Bridges/Ladders/Ramps/Staircases/Tunnels | Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania | 1983 |
| Construction in Process | 37 Pkwn Street, Lodz, Poland | 1981 |
| Creative Solutions to Ecological Issues [in essay, not in exhibition] | Dallas Museum of Natural History [traveled] | 1993 |
| Deconstruct / Reconstruct | John Gibson Gallery, New York | 1986 |
| Dia: Beacon [Collection Catalogue] | Dia Art Foundation | 2003 |
| Diagrams & Drawings | Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo | 1972 |
| Directions 1: Options | Milwaukee Art Center | 1968 |
| Documenta 5 | Kassel, Germany | 1972 |
| Documenta 6 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger] | Kassel, Germany | 1977 |
| Drawings | John Weber Gallery, New York | 1991 |
| Earth Art | Andrew Dikson White Museum of Art, Cornell | 1969 |
| Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Elements of Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | 1971 |
| Earth Works | Virginia Dawn Gallery | 1968 |
Ecologic Art (postcard, no catalogue) |
John Gibson Gallery, New York | 1969 |
| Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies | The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2002 |
| Engaging Objects: The Participatory Art of Mirrors, Mechanisms, and Shelters | The Clocktower - The Institute for Art & Urban Resources | 1986 |
| Films by American Artists: One Medium Among Many | Art Council of Great Britian - a traveling exhibition of films | 1981 |
| 557,087 | Seattle | 1969 |
| Focus on Light | The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton | 1967 |
| Focus 2: Minimal Art, Concept Art, Land Art and Arte Povera [brochure] | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig | 2004 |
| Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists' Interpretation and Solutions [mentioned in the essays, not included in the exhibition] | The Queens Museum, New York | 1992 |
| From the Collection of Sol LeWitt | Independent Curators | 1985 |
| Gerry Schum | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | 1980 |
| Information | MoMA, NY | 1970 |
| July - August - September 1969 | Seth Siegelaub | 1969 |
| Konzeption - Conception: Documentation of today's art tendencies | Westdeutscher Verlag | 1969 |
| La Biennale di Venezia 50: Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer | Venice | 2003 |
| Land Art | Fernsehgalerie Berlin Gerry Schum | 1969 |
| Minimal Art [in German] | Akademie der Kunste, Berlin | 1969 |
| 955,000 | Vancouver Art Gallery | 1970 |
| 1967: At the Crossroads | Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia | 1987 |
| One Month: March, 1969 | Seth Siegelaub | 1969 |
| Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970 | Tate Modern | 2005 |
| Op Losse Schroeven (Square peg in round holes) | Stedelijk Museum | 1969 |
| Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors | The Jewish Museum, New York | 1966 |
| Probing The Earth: Contemporary Land Projects | Hirshorn Museum | 1978 |
| Prospect 69 | Kunsthalle Dusseldorf | 1969 |
| Ready to Shoot: Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum / videogalerie schum | Kunsthalle Dusseldorf | 2003 |
| Reasoned Space | Center for Creative Photography, U. of Arizona | 1980 |
| Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | 1995 |
| Reel Work: Artists' Film and Video of the 1970s | Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami | 1996 |
| San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art: A Selections from the Permanent Collection | San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art | 1990 |
| Sculpture Since the Sixties: from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art | Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitqble Center | 1989 |
| Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960-1990 | Institute of Contemporary Art, U. of Pensylvania, Philadelphia | 1990 |
| 6 Artists 6 Exhibitions | Walker Art Center | 1968 |
| Slide Show: Projected Images in Contemporary Art | The Baltimore Museum of Art | 2005 |
| Sonsbeek 71 | Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem | 1971 |
| 10 | Dwan Gallery | 1966 |
| The Art of the Real: USA 1948-1968 | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1968 |
| The Big Nothing | Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia | 2004 |
| The Last Picture Show | The Walker Art Center | 2003 |
| The Political Arm | John Weber Gallery / Washington University Gallery of Art | 1991 |
| The Rebounding Surface: A Study of Reflections in the Work of Nineteen Contemporary Artists [curator: Linda Weintraub] | Edith C. Blum Art Institute Avery Center for the Arts, Bard College | 1982 |
| The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1999 |
| The New Sculpture 1965-75: Between Geometry and Gesture | The Whitney Museum of American Art | 1990 |
| The Waste Land: Desert and Ice. Barren Landscapes in Photography | Atelier Augarten, Vienna | 2001 |
| When Attitudes Become Form (Bern) | Kunsthalle Bern | 1969 |
| Whitney Museum Sculpture Annual 1970 | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1970 |
| Working Drawings and other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed as Art | Walther Konig, Koln | 1966/ 1997 |
| EAST VILLAGE EXHIBITIONS [INVITATIONS ONLY] | ||
| Broken Landscape, discarded Object | P.P.O.W. | 1989 |
| OTHER EXHIBITIONS [WITHOUT CATALOGUES] | ||
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Installation View at Everhart Museum of studies, maquettes and drawings by Smithson |
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| Artists and the Land: Differing Concerns [exhibition curator: Robert Schweitzer / Artists: John Bromberg. Betsy Damon, Harriet Feigenbaum, and Robert Smithson] | Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania | 1987 |
| BOOKS ABOUT SMITHSON | ||
| Earthwards: Robert Smithson and the Art after Babel | University of California, Berkeley | 1995 |
| Field Trips: Bernd & Hilla Becher / Robert Smithson | Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves - Porto | 2002 |
| Mirror Travel: Robert Smithson and History | Yale | 2004 |
| Robert Smithson Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere | MIT | 2003 |
| Robert Smithson: Sculpture (Robert Hobbs) | Cornell University Press | 1981 |
| Robert Smithson: Slideworks | Carlo Frua | 1997 |
| Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings | University of California Press | 1996 |
| Robert Smithson Unearthed | Columbia University Press | 1991 |
| Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty | Dia Art Foundation | 2005 |
| The Writings of Robert Smithson | New York University Press | 1979 |
| SELECTED BOOKS INCLUDING SMITHSON | ||
| Appropiation [Documents of Contemporary Art] | MIT Press / Tate Gallery | 2009 |
| Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation | The New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1984 |
| Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium | Thames & Hudson | 2001 |
| Art & Technology: A Report on the Art & Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967-1971 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art / The Viking Press | 1971 |
| Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art | E. P. Dutton | 1983 |
| Art Povera: Earthworks/Impossible Art/Actual Art/Conceptual Art | Germano Celant | 1969 |
| Arts and the Environment | George Braziller | 2001 |
| Arts of the Environment (Gyorgy Kepes) | George Braziller | 1972 |
| Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam Era | University of California Press | 2009 |
| Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture | University of California Press | 1992 |
| Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists | The New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1987 |
| Breakthrough Fictioneers | Something Else Press | 1973 |
| Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974 | Soho Press | 2000 |
| Changing: Essays in Art Criticism [Lucy Lippard] | E. P. Dutton & Co. | 1971 |
| Conceptual Art | Phaidon | 1998 |
| Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology | MIT Press | 1999 |
| Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity | MIT Press | 2003 |
| Conceptuallism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation | University of Texas Press | 2007 |
| Dialogues in Public Art | MIT Press | 2000 |
| Earthwork: Art and the Landscape of the Sisties | University of California, Berkeley | 2002 |
| From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art | MIT Press | 1999 |
| From the Center: feminist essays on women's art | Dutton | 1976 |
| Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change [Lucy Lippard] | E.P. Dutton | 1984 |
| Great Western Salt Works: essays on the meaning of Post-Formalist art | George Braziller | 1974 |
| Idea Art: A Critical Anthology | Dutton | 1973 |
| Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia | Minneola Press | 2003 |
| Land and Environmental Art | Phaidon | 1998 |
| Land Art | Tate Publishing | 2006 |
| Minimal Art: A Critical Survey | E.P. Dutton & Co. | 1968 |
| Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties | Yale University Press | 2001 |
| New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality | Thames and Hudson | 2001 |
| Okey Dokey Konrad Fischer | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln | 2007 |
| One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity | MIT Press | 2004 |
| On the Beaten Tack: tourism, art, and culture | The New Press, New York | 1999 |
| On the Museum's Ruins | MIT Press | 1993 |
| Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975 | School of Visual Arts | 2000 |
| Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory | Pantheon | 1983 |
| Recording Conceptual Art [interviews originally carried out by Norvell in 1969] | University of California Press | 2001 |
| Rewriting Conceptual Art | Reaktion Books [Critical Views], London | 1999 |
| Surface Tension: Prolematics of Site | Errant Bodies Press | 2003 |
| The Archive [Documents of Contemporary Art] | MIT Press and Whitechapel Gallery | 2006 |
| The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art | MIT Press | 2003 |
| The Everyday [Documents of Contemporary Art] | MIT Press and Whitechapel Gallery | 2008 |
| The Lure of the Local: senses of place in a multicentered society | The New Press, New York | 1997 |
| The New Avant-Garde: Issues for the Art of the Seventies | Gregoire Muller | 1972 |
| Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | University of California Press | 1996 |
| Video by Artists 2 | Art Metropole, Toronto | 1986 |
| Words To Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art | MIT Press | 2007 |
| SELECTED PERIODICALS INCLUDING SMITHSON | ||
| Artforum [Jack Burnham: Systems Esthetics] | September | 1968 |
| Artforum [Earthworks and the New Picturesque] | December | 1968 |
| Artforum [Notes on Sculpture Part 4: Beyond Objects by Robert Morris] | April | 1969 |
| Artforum [Documenta 5] | October | 1972 |
| Artforum [Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape] | February | 1973 |
| Artforum ["Site Inspection" by Lawrence Alloway] | October | 1976 |
| Art in America [The Emperor's New Bikini by Hilton Kramer] | January-February | 1969 |
| Art in America, [Article: Impossible Art] | May-June | 1969 |
| Art in America [Earthscapes, Landworks and Oz by Dave Hickey] | September-October | 1971 |
| Art in America [The Complete Smithson by Carter Ratcliff (Smithson's writings)] | Januray | 1980 |
| Art in America [A Way of Thinking Out Loud: The Drawings of Robert Smithson by Hayden Herrera] | September-October | 1974 |
| Art in America [Artworks on the Land] | January-February | 1976 |
| Art International [Minimal Art at the Hague] | May 15 | 1968 |
| Art International [Letter from Holland (including: discussion of Square Peg in Round Holes and When Attitudes Become Form] | May 20 | 1969 |
| Art Journal, [review of: Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere] | Summer | 2004 |
| Art-Rite # 5 | Art-Rite Publishing | 1974 |
| Aspen Magazine N. 8 | Fall / Winter | 1970-1 |
| Avalanche # 01 | Avalanche | 1970 |
| Avalanche # 08 [includes tribute to Smithson following his death in July of 1973] | Avalanche | 1973 |
| Bomb No. XVIII - New ArtWriting, Theater and Film [image only] | Winter | 1987 |
| Cover #2 | Artcover, New York | 1980 |
| Frieze [Land, Now You See It (Robert Smithson's re-emerging Spiral Jetty)] | January - February | 2003 |
| Interfunktionen # 03 | Interfunktionen | 1969 |
| Interfunktionen #05 | Interfunktionen | 1970 |
| Interfunktionen #07 | Interfunktionen | 1971 |
| New Observations # 17 - Science Fiction Issue (editred by Peter Halley) | New Observations Ltd, New York | 1983 |
| New Observations # 63 From the Pandemonium... | New Observations Ltd, New York | 1988 |
| New Observations # 81 Terra Firma | New Observations Ltd, New York | 1991 |
| October # 8 [Sculpture in the Extended Field by Rosalind Krauss] | Spring | 1979 |
| October 10 | The MIT Press | 1979 |
| Parkett # 43 (insert - Hotel Palenque) | Parkett | 1995 |
| The Fox # 2 [an interview by Bruce Kurtz with Smithson] | The Fox | 1975 |
| TriQuarterly #32 | Charles Newman | 1975 |
| 0 to 9 Number 5 | Acconci and Mayer, reprint 2006, January | 1969 |
| 0 to 9 Number 6 | Acconci and Mayer, reprint 2006, July | 1969 |
| EXHIBITION REVIEWS | ||
| Robert Smithson at Dwan | Art International, May 15 | 1968 |
| Robert Smithson at Dwan | Artforum, April | 1969 |
| Robert Smithson at the Whitney Museum | Art in America, April | 1982 |
| EXHIBITION ADS | ||
| Robert Smithson at Dwan [Leaning Strata] | Artforum, March | 1968 |