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Sight/nonsite: Robert Smithson's dia...

Evans, Carlton M.

Sight/nonsite: Robert Smithson's dialectics of vision.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sight/nonsite: Robert Smithson's dialectics of vision.
Author:	Evans, Carlton M.
Description:	267 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Scott Bukatman.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0005.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-01A.
Subject:	Art History.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3162339
ISBN:	9780496962266

Sight/nonsite: Robert Smithson's dialectics of vision.
Evans, Carlton M.

Sight/nonsite: Robert Smithson's dialectics of vision. - 267 p.

Adviser: Scott Bukatman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2005.

This dissertation traces a preoccupation with contemporary models of visual perception in the work of American earthworks, installation, and conceptual artist Robert Smithson, beginning with his earliest paintings of the late 1950s to the earthworks and films that he completed in the years immediately before his accidental death in 1973. It demonstrates that Smithson's work adopts, mobilizes, and criticizes a range of related visual models emanating from disciplines as varied as art history and criticism, perceptual psychology, optics, psychoanalysis, architecture, media studies, and film theory. This project attempts to uncover these models and the polemics that attend them at the historical moment in which they arose culturally and in Smithson's oeuvre. As it does so, it describes a central shift in Smithson's work as his artistic practice begins to reveal an ambivalence toward the burgeoning information society, and examines the status of visuality within this vast historical transformation. While resisting the temptation to either blindly celebrate or denounce the transformation of the world into an array of information, Smithson seems to struggle to come to terms with this situation. The impact of single works simultaneously appears to hinge upon their dissemination in and as popular media, and as objects of a resolute phenomenology, to be experienced in the here and now.

ISBN: 9780496962266Subjects--Topical Terms:

212490
Art History.

Sight/nonsite: Robert Smithson's dialectics of vision.
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