Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction --Eugenie Tsai Cosmic Exile: Turns in the Life and Art of Robert Smithson --Thomas Crow The Taste of Time: Salt and the Spiral Jetty --Jennifer Roberts Towards a new type of building": Robert Smithson's Architectural Criticism --Mark Linder Enantiomorphic Models --Ann Reynolds In the Yucatan: Mirroring Presence and Absence --Suzaan Boettger Robert Smithson's Proposal for Monument at Antarctica --Robert Sobieszek A Heap of Language": Robert Smithson and American Hieroglyphics --Richard Sieburth The Catalogue of Robert Smithson's Library --Alexander Alberro The Library List Beyond Duchamp: An Interview with Robert Smithson --Moira Roth A Lurid Presence: Smithson's Legacy and Post-Studio Art --Cornelia Butler Checklist of the Exhibition Exhibition Chronology

About the Author

Eugenie Tsai is a critic and independent curator. Formerly Senior Curator and Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she organized exhibitions and artists' projects for the museum and its branches and oversaw the permanent collection. She is the author of Robert Smithson Unearthed (1991).

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"When a thing is seen through the consciousness of temporality, it is changed into something that is nothing. This all-engulfing sense provides the mental ground for the object, so that is ceases being a mere object and becomes art." - Robert Smithson"