Songofsnow Books, Arts & Photo
Twitter: Songofsnow                         Email: Questions at Songofsnow.com              (505) 629 - 1485
 

FREE SHIPPING
in U.S. on many items!

Low cost International
Shipping available!






New items
added weekly!

Google Checkout Acceptance Mark

Songofsnow Books, Arts & Photo is a ShopWiki Approved Store



Songofsnow Books, Arts & Photo is upfront

  Home > Book Shop > Art > Folk Art >

  Robert Smithson Sculpture Robert Hobbs, Lawrence Alloway John Coplans Lucy Lippard
  songofsnow
Click for additional images as available
 
We ship daily!

Our Price: $21.81

Condition: See product description
Make/Author/Artist: Robert Hobbs
Edition/ Material: 1981
Details: soft cover

Quantity in Stock:1

Product Code: RSMSC

Description
 
.. with every year that passes the accidental death of Robert Smithson in 1973 seems an even greater calamity.  Smithson had a natural largeness of spirit. He had big ideas and could carry them through. ( He also had engaging quirks and could blow them up like many colored balloons.) He could talk, he could write, and he could make.  And he could communicate his enthusiasm to others.  How should we regard him, if not as a loss leader and as a source of energy to suddenly cut off?

In one way and another, Robert Smithson changed the course of art, and there is today a whole gamut of sculpture, from Richard Serra to Carl Andre, that does something to his dynamic into brief presence. -- John Russell, the Fertile Imagination of Robert Smithson - the New York Times

Robert Smithson is a seminal figure in contemporary art.  In his work he created a new dialogue between traditional sculpture and its context.  He brought into play and be part of the work of art the relationship between the material that composes the work and the material's origin.  He was fascinated by science fiction, ecological and geological processes; by the non-space of movie houses, suburbia, abandoned industrial areas, and strip mined lands;and, most important, by the concept of entropy. Just as Jackson Pollock  change painting by taking a canvas off the easel so Smithson redefined the limits of sculpture by taking it out of the gallery and into the world.

Condition: oversized softcover, 261 pages including index, 1981 Cornell University press, soiling and scuffing to outside cover interior book in very good condition.

Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review

Browse for more products in the same category as this item:

Book Shop > Art > Folk Art
Book Shop > Art
Book Shop