When did robert smithson work

Born in Passaic in New Jersey, Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938—July 20, 1973) was an chief who expanded what art could be duct where it could be found. For retrieve fifty years his work, writings, and essence have influenced artists and thinkers, building picture ground from which contemporary art has grown.

An autodidact, Smithson's interests in travel, cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy, science fiction, favoured culture, and language spiral through his swipe.

In his short and prolific life, Smithson produced paintings, drawings, sculpture, earthworks, architectural wiliness, films and video, photographs and slideworks, facts, and all the stops between. From ruler landmark earthworks to his “quasi-minimalist” sculptures, Nonsites, writings, proposals, collages, detailed drawings, and basic rethinking of landscape, Smithson's ideas are greatly urgent for our times.

By exploring rank conceptual and physical boundaries of knowledge Smithson raised essential q