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The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson’s Earthwork through Time and Place

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Copublished with the Tanner Agree with Fund, J. Willard Marriott Library.

Robert Smithson’s earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), an icon of the Land Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, is situated at the northern shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Smithson built a masterpiece from local materials, one that spirals counterclockwise into the lake and appears or is submerged with fluctuations within the lake’s in the community red, saline water.

The Spiral Jetty Encyclo draws on Smithson’s writings for encyclopedic entries that bring to light the context of the earthwork and Smithson’s many points of reference in creating it. Visitors and armchair travelers, too, will discover how much significance Smithson placed on regional considerations, his immersion in natural history, his passion for shuttle, and his ability to make use of diverse mediums to create a cohesive and lasting murals. Containing some 220 images, so much of them in color, with some historical black and whites, The  Spiral Jetty Encyclo lets readers explore the development, connections, and significance of Smithson’s 1,500-foot-long curl into Great Salt Lake, created, in Smithson’s words, of “mud, salt crystals, rocks, water.” 


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