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On location : siting Robert Smithson and his contemporaries / edited by Simon Dell with contributions by Alistair Rider and William Wood. - London : Black Dog, 2008. - 188 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-187).

The dialectic of place : the non-site and the limits of modernism / Simon Dell -- Mirrors and monuments, entropy in the ebb tide / William Wood -- Arts of isolation, arts of coalition / Alistair Rider.

"On Location follows the movements of several key 1960s artists who began to work directly with the exhibition space, creating temporary installations or challenging the physical fabric of the gallery by transforming its architecture. Others moved beyond the gallery to work on city streets or in the countryside. And others explored the mechanisms of the art world, investigating the publications and reproductions which now frequently replaced the direct experience of individual works. Robert Smithson engaged in different ways with all of these practices and as a result his work plays a pivotal role in this book."--Jacket.

ISBN: 9781906155599: £29.95 1906155593

LCCN: 2008278413

Subjects--Personal Names:
Smithson, Robert--Exhibitions.
Smithson, Robert--Contemporaries--Exhibitions.
Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Site-specific installations (Art)--Exhibitions
Site-specific sculpture--Exhibitions
Individual artists, art monographs
Installation art

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Exhibition catalogs.

LC Class. No.: / O55 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 709.22