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Robert Smithson: Art in Continual Movement explores the legacy of the artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973) and his influence on contemporary artistic practices. Smithson’s diverse use of media served as a precursor for recent filmic practices in visual arts; his legacy provides insight into today’s cinematic art. The book presents two approaches in relation to Smithson’s practice: “Art & Ecology” and “The Cinematic Condition.” The book takes Smithson’s artworks like Broken Circle/Spiral Hill and treats it as a case study… |
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“Smithson’s diverse use of media served as a precursor for recent filmic practices in visual arts…”
Robert Smithson: Art In Continual Movement: Ingrid Commandeur and Trudy van Riemsdijk-Zandee (Aladau Publications, 240 pp, hardcover $50.00, ISBN: 978-9081531481)
Robert Smithson: Art In Continual Movement
Robert Smithson: Art in Continual Movement explores the legacy of the artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973) and his influence on contemporary artistic practices. Smithson’s diverse use of media served as a precursor for recent filmic practices in visual arts; his legacy provides insight into today’s cinematic art. The book presents two approaches in relation to Smithson’s practice: “Art & Ecology” and “The Cinematic Condition.” The book takes Smithson’s artworks like Broken Circle/Spiral Hill and treats it as a case study, opening it up to topics relevant in contemporary art like spectatorship, documentation, media and society. Ranging from his photographs, film scripts, drawings, and original manuscripts is an archive of Smithson’s international influential works.
