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Robert Smithson: Language to be Looked At and/or Things to be Read, Drawings from 1962-63

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Editor's Note
 
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References:

1. Catalogues for the most comprehensive of these exhibition include the following: Sabine Breitwieser, Reorganizing Structure by Drawing Through It : Drawings by Gordon Matta-Clark. Vienna: Generali Foundation, 1997
Cornelia Butler, Afterimage: Drawing Through Process. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999
Gary Garrels, Sol Lewitt: A Retrospective. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000

2. See Eugenie Tsai, Robert Smithson Unearthed: Drawings, Collages, Writings. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991, and "Post-Studio/Postmodern: Robert Smithson and the Technological Sublime," in Caroline Jones, Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1996.

3. The press release, "Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read" and the articles "Quasi-Infinities and the Waning of Space," (Arts Magazine, November 1966) and "Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction" (Aspen Review, Fall-Winter 1970-71) are reprinted in Jack Flam (editor), Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

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