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Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere - Book Review
Art in America, Oct, 2003 by Carter Ratcliff
Progressives want to free us from the oppressive present so that we can find our way, fairly soon, to a better future. Happiness awaits us. Smithson wanted to show us that we live amid signs of the ultimate, entropic future. Nothing but nothingness awaits us, and to offer intimations of this melancholy truth is the only legitimate purpose for art. Though I don't share Smithson's ideas about modernity or the purpose of art, I believe that his pessimism, in all its strangely witty forms, made him one of the leading figures of postwar American art. As a respectable academic, Reynolds can't fully acknowledge the bitter, even cruel source of Smithson's power. She must maintain the pretense that, if Smithson is a major artist, he must have had a good attitude. But she was drawn, at least in part, to his incorrigibly bad attitude, and from that affinity has come a useful and thoroughly interesting book.
Author: Carter Ratcliff is a New York-based poet and critic whose most recent book is Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-75 (Allworth Press).
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