13 Robert Smithson, Tear, 1963

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TitleTear

Creator nameSmithson, Robert

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleArtist

Creation date1963

Object typeCollage

MaterialsGouache, photo, and crayon on paper

LocationEstate of Robert Smithson

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsDespair in artTears in artWaste products

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History in Smithson’s Religious Paintings

Jennifer L. Roberts

Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History

~~In 1961 Smithson was twenty-three years old, living in New York on Sixth Avenue in what he described as “the hinterlands between the Garment district and the Village.” Having felt alienated, misunderstood, and bored by the...

Author

Jennifer L. Roberts

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.12-35

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00282.2

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22073&redirecttoanchor=72813

Chapter subject tags:MysticismJesus Christ--ArtIconoclasm--HistoryCollage, AmericanKaprow, AllanGreenberg, Clement, 1909-1994

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