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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is the poster child for the antiformalist Earth Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. A coil of earth, salt, and stone that Smithson built into Great Salt Lake, Utah, the piece is a tribute to the movement's scale and engineering as well as to its visionary union of art and nature. Smithson's questioning of the conventional attitudes of art and culture did not stop with the creation of objects and images; he was committed to exploring of attitudes and ideas as a critical component of his work.

Smithson, Robert; Holt, Nancy. ISBN 10: 0814733948, ISBN 13: 9780814733943.

New York : New York University Press, 1979. 260. a New York : b New York University Press, c 1979.

In 2017 the Holt/Smithson Foundation was founded to preserve, through public service, the investigative spirit the two artists who "developed innovative methods of. . New York NY: New York University Press.

In 2017 the Holt/Smithson Foundation was founded to preserve, through public service, the investigative spirit the two artists who "developed innovative methods of exploring our relationship with the planet, and expanded the limits of artistic practice  .

Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson at their West Village loft, New York City, 1970 Photograph: Gianfranco Gorgoni. Holt/Smithson Foundation exists to continue the creative and investigative spirit of the artists Nancy Holt (1938-2014) and Robert Smithson (1938-73). Holt and Smithson developed innovative ways of exploring our relationship with the planet, expanding the limits of artistic practice. Through public service their Foundation engages in programs developing the artists’ creative legacies, continuing the transformation they brought to the world of art and ideas.

Holt/Smithson Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Here’s one especially relevant, as in my book in process, Robert Smithson, Landscapes of Loss, I’ll be taking him out of obsolete categories and viewing his fascinating complexities anew. This page isn't allowing me to upload a photo.

The Writings of Robert Smithson: Essays with Illustrations. Art J. Stuart Morgan. Fourteen essays written by leading figures across a range of disciplines and from around the world-including James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre Bolanger, Julia Czerniak, and more-capture the origins, the contemporary milieu, and the aspirations of this relatively new field. The Landscape Urbanism Reader is an inspiring signal to the future of city making as well as an indispensable reference for students, teachers, architects, and urban planners.