Suzaan boettger bio

  • Suzaan Boettger, a widely published scholar, arts journalist, and critic based in New York City, is the author of Earthworks: Art and Landscape of the Sixties.
  • Suzaan Boettger, an art historian, has written a scholarly tour de force about the Catholic artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973).
  • I am an art historian, critic and lecturer based in New York City.

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    This first biography of Robert Smithson, famous as the creator of "Spiral Jetty,"deepens perception of him and his art by addressing the potent forces that as a successful sculptor he obscured. Applying historical investigation, occult decryption, and psychological acuity, art historian/critic Suzaan Boettger recognizes Smithson's visual and verbal creations as responses to the family history of loss that prompted his birth and shaped his strange intelligence. With copious illustrations of unknown paintings and drawings that eluded his destruction and discovered snapshots of Smithson, of his wife, sculptor Nancy Holt, and peers, "Inside the Spiral" offers insight into the enigmatic creator of this mystical pilgrimage site and his journey to its bizarre red water, calling up his history.

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    Suzaan Boettger

    I am an art historian, critic and lecturer based in New York City and author of the first biography "Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson," University of Minnesota Press, acclaimed as containing "revelations that will come as a complete surprise, so thoroughly researched and documented that any prior understanding of the artist will be changed and expanded. . . a "MUST READ." 
    See www.suzaanboettger.net for information and publications to download. 
    See previously unknown pix of and by Smithson on Instagram: @NatrCultr

    As a scholar, my primary areas of research have been environmental and environmentalist art; my "Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties" (University of California Press, 2003) was acclaimed by the New York Times Book Review as the “definitive history” and bygd the Library Journal as “a remarkable combination of insight and intellectual enthusiasm that, rare in a scholarly work, is ea

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    To see previously unknown pix of and by Smithson, follow me on Instagram:@NatrCultrand see#InsideTheSpiralSmithson

    As a scholar, my primary areas of research have been environmental and environmentalist art; my Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties (University of California Press, 2002) was acclaimed by The New York Times Book Review as the “definitive history. ” The Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute awarded me its Julius Silberger prize for an inter-disciplinaryessay published in American Imago as "Brother's Keeper: Robert Smithson's Anti-Elegiac Pictures." Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson (University of Minnesota Press, 2023),the first biography of Robert Smithson, won a Millard Meiss Publication Grant from the College Art Associat

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