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Name: Robert Smithson
Birth Date: January 2, 1938
Death Date: July 20, 1973
Place of Birth: Passaic, New Jersey, United States
Place of Death: Texas, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: artist

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Biography of Robert Smithson
1,437 words, approx. 5 pages
The sculptor, essayist, and filmmaker Robert Smithson (1938-1973) is most known for his site-specific environmental earth works. The sculptor Robert Smithson began his career as a painter. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, on January 2, 1938, Smithson was...


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Robert Smithson Information
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Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938–July 20, 1973) was an American artist famous for his land art. Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York. His early exhibited...


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Artforum
Robert Smithson
12/01/2004: 2,144 words, approx. 7 pages
ROBERT SMITHSON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES Thumb back through the pages of Artforum thirty years ago. "Robert Smithson," declared John Coplans in the first sentence of "The 'Amarillo Ramp,'" "was a problem from the beginning." An odd enough pronouncement, given...
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The Architects' Journal
Mirror Travels: Robert Smithson and History
10/28/2004: 414 words, approx. 1 pages
Mirror Travels: Robert Smithson and History By Jennifer L Roberts. Yale University Press, 2004.162pp. Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere By Ann Reynolds. MIT Press, 2003. 364pp. £16.95 Mention of the name Robert Smithson will probably first prompt thoughts of...
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The New York Observer
Astutely Associative Tour Of an Overinflated Year
5/7/2006: 773 words, approx. 3 pages
Years have vintages too: It doesn’t take a sommelier to recommend a 1776, an 1815, a 1989. Conversely, who’d want to lay in a year like, let us say, 1973? It’s the nadir of that supposed nadir of decades, the 1970’s. Watergate roiled the nation....
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The New York Observer
Astutely Associative Tour Of an Overinflated Year
5/7/2006: 771 words, approx. 3 pages
Years have vintages too: It doesn’t take a sommelier to recommend a 1776, an 1815, a 1989. Conversely, who’d want to lay in a year like, let us say, 1973? It’s the nadir of that supposed nadir of decades, the 1970’s. Watergate roiled the...
 


 

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