Hikmet Sidney Loe teaches art history at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Her work examines the changeable nature of the earth and addresses our perceptual and cultural constructs of the land. She frequently lectures and publishes on topics related to Utah’s earthworks.
“Few authors are better qualified than Loe, who provides a richly
faceted image of one of the key artworks of the twentieth century.
Whoever takes the book in hand will be motivated to go visit The
Spiral Jetty.”
—Philip Ursprung, author of Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the
Limits to Art “An important book that makes key contributions to
the literature on earthworks, Robert Smithson, and the Spiral
Jetty. Its innovative format brings abundant new research to light
in a fluid and flexible way.”
—Jennifer L. Roberts, author of Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and
History “Loe is gifted in her ability to succinctly present a broad
survey of information that will interest readers at high school to
adult aficionado levels.”
—Frank McEntire, art critic and author of Final Light: The
Life and Art of V. Douglas Snow “A useful reference that could well
provide hours of free-form exploration of Smithson’s work…. Those
readers who immerse themselves in these pages will come to
appreciate Spiral Jetty as a multi-faceted work of conceptual art.
Moreover, readers will find sparkling nuggets of information
regarding the Great Salt Lake itself, the childhood encounters with
natural history that informed Smith’s work, the relationship
between Spiral Jetty and his oeuvre, his dialogue with the
environmental movement, and his efforts to use art to reclaim land
disturbed by industrial processes.”
—Utah Historical Quarterly
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