Robert Smithson’s A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New.
Scope and Content: This collection contains several photographs of Smithson's Partially Buried Woodshed, clippings on the work and Smithson, and other miscellaneous items. Also included are audiotapes and videotapes of a 1990 conference on Robert Smithson held at Kent State University in conjunction with an exhibition in the School of Art Gallery. A significant part of the collection contains.
We made our way onto Route 3, the very road Smithson traveled in 1967 on a bus from Port Authority, making one of his most memorable works, his essay “The Monuments of Passaic.”.
Here’s Smithson on the bus to Passaic,. Smithson also published an essay in Artforum that same year, using the same images as illustrations. Ruins (2011), edited by Brian Dillon, is part of the Documents of Contemporary Art series published by Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press. Not unsurprisingly, Sebald crops up in a number of the essays. I briefly write up almost every book I read on my.
American artist, essayist, conceptual artist, painter, sculptor. Born Robert Irving Smithson, the son of Irving Smithson and Susan Duke, Robert was a pioneer in land art and earth works. His best known work is Spiral Jetty (1970), a 1,500-foot (460 m) long spiral-shaped jetty extending into the Great Salt Lake in.
Robert Smithson and analysis of two of his works. Essay by mattskiba, A, August 2007. download word file, 3 pages, 3.0. Downloaded 24 times. Keywords Utah, art and science, sea levels, symbol of life, art students league. 0 Like 0 Tweet. Spiral Jetty, 1970,Mud, salt crystals and rock. Partially Buried Woodshed, 1970,Woodshed and earthRobert Smithson was an American artist, famous mainly for.
Here’s Smithson on the bus to Passaic,. As Brian Dillon’s introductory essay Airlocked indicates, visitors to the exhibition heard a recording of Coates singing “a song that seemed to have been carried on the air from the past, with a warning for the future.” A vitrine in the exhibition hall displayed eleven bittern specimens from the natural history collection of Norwich Castle.
Passaic County’s lowest spots are tidal lands along the Passaic River in Passaic and Clifton. Passaic County has over 40 lakes and ponds with areas in excess of 20 acres, as well as, nine reservoirs. View the text of the original bill creating Passaic County in 1837. NOTABLE RESIDENTS OF PASSAIC COUNTY Mitch Albom (born 1958), author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Chief Justice.