Yucatan is Elsewhere on Robert-Smithsons-Hotel-Palenque. Home; Documents; Yucatan is Elsewhere on Robert-Smithsons-Hotel-Palenque; Please download to view. 3) Quoted from text accompanying Nonsite (Palisades, Edgewater, New Jersey). 1968, reprinted in Hobbs, cd., Robert Smithson: Sculpture (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981), 110. 4) ec Robert rnirhso n, 'Entropy and rhe New Monuments,' first published in Arl- forum,June 1966, reprinted in Til, Il'ri/i'gJ of Robert Smithson, 9.
Smithson at the site of Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah, April 1970. Photo Gianfranco Gorgoni. Born January 2, 1938 ( 1938-01-02) Passaic, New Jersey, United States Died July 20, 1973 ( 1973-07-20) (aged 35) Amarillo, Texas, United States Web,,, Robert Smithson (1938–1973) was an American sculptor and writer associated with the Land Art movement.
His large-scale sculptures, called Earthworks, engaged directly with nature and were created by moving and constructing with vast amounts of soil and rocks. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • Biographical note [ ] Excerpted from 'Biographical Note' printed in Smithson, The Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam, 1996, pp xxvi-xxviii, itself a revised version of a text written by Nancy Holt, Philip Leider and Sol LeWitt for the first edition of the book (published 1979). Robert Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey, on January 2, 1938. His parents, Susan Duke Smithson and Irving Smithson, moved back to his father's hometown, Rutherford, New Jersey, shortly after his birth. Robert Smithson was an only child—his nine-year-old brother, Harold, died of leukemia two years before he was born. [.] In 1956, one week after graduating from high school, Srmthson joined the army reserves, where he was assigned to Special Services.
His six-month period of active duty was spent in Fort Knox, Kentucky, where, after basic training, he was made artist-in-residence, doing posters for the camp and murals for the mess hall. He eventually obtained a discharge from the reserves on the grounds that continued service would ruin his creativity. Between 1956 and 1958 he hitchhiked extensively around the United States and Mexico.
Smithson's first one-man exhibition was of abstract paintings at the Artists Gallery, New York City, in 1959. In 1961 he had a one-man exhibition of paintings at Galleria George Lester, Rome, and in 1962 a one-man exhibition of assemblage works at the Richard Castellane Gallery, New York City. After this exhibition, he withdrew from the art world for a period of introspection and assessment, marrying the artist Nancy Holt in 1963. Smithson re-emerged in 1965 by showing sculpture at the Daniels Gallery, where he met various leading American sculptors of the 1960s. His first published writing on art appeared, and from this time on he continuously exhibited and wrote. In 1966 he joined the Dwan Gallery, New York City, where he had four one-man exhibitions of sculpture between 1966 and 1970.
At about the same time (1966-1969) he began excursions, usually with friends, sometimes alone, to New Jersey's decaying urban sites, industrial wastelands, and abandoned quarries. Out of this new consciousness of the postindustrial terrain emerged Smithson's Non-Sites, which created a wholly new premise for contemporary sculpture. It was in 1966 also that he proposed his first earthwork, Tar Pool and Gravel Pit, for Philadelphia, and other earthworks for the fringes of the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport, as part of his work as an artist-consultant with an architectural firm that was competing for the airport design contract. In the summer of 1968, he traveled to the deserts of California, Nevada, and Utah seeking sites for art.
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In 1969, in order to build a large work of art, he negotiated successfully with the government of British Columbia for a lease on an island near Vancouver. Later, however, the government's permission was rescinded, and the work was never built. Smithson was able, in 1969, to build Asphalt Rundown in a quarry near Rome, Italy.