| LC control no. | n 81079907 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Smithson, Robert |
| Variant(s) | Smithson, Robert (Artist) |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0001 2278 756X 500015753 41913245 Q328341 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Great Salt Lake (Utah) |
| Birth date | 1938-01-02 |
| Death date | 1973-07-20 |
| Place of birth | Passaic (N.J.) |
| Field of activity | Earthworks (Art) Conceptual art Land art |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Photographers |
| Found in | His Robert Smithson: drawings, 1974. Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the limits to art, 2013 Robert Smithson in Texas, 2015: title page (Robert Smithson in Texas) Wikipedia, via WWW, March 22, 2016 (Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938-July 20, 1973) was an American artist famous for his use of photography in relation to sculpture and land art; Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey) New York times, 13 Oct. 2023: in an article entitled "Lives beyond the works: Looking for connections" on page C8 (Robert Smithson, the pioneering land artist, repeatedly said that his art was a clear distillation of his essential self; nonfigurative artists like Smithson; his obsession with the way things break down through entropy, his love of ravaged industrial sites, his use of aerial perspectives and his preference for what was rough and splintered; Smithson died in a plane crash in 1973) OCLC database, 20 Oct. 2023 (access points: Smithson, Robert, Smithson, Robert, 1938-1973, Smithson, Robert (Artist); usage: Robert Smithson) |
| Associated language | eng |
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