This fully illustrated 248-page book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson's (1938-1973) complex and highly influential career. Straddling the movements of minimalism and land art, Smithson, who died in a plane crash at the age of 35, had a profound impact on the cultural landscape that resonates to this day. Robert Smithson presents essays by top Smithson .
The term process art describes a moment of radical experimentation in postwar American sculpture. The book revisits process art in terms of the artists who defined the movement, and suggests a transitional moment when many of its practitioners anticipated the postminimalist art of the 1970s.