Passaic Boys are Hell: Robert Smithson's Tag as Temporal and Spatial Marker of the Geographical Self
Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Robert Smithson seductively created stories about his activities as an artist with attention to his "duration"; his time of existence. Born in 1938 in the New Jersey suburb of Passaic, Smithson lived in the New Jersey suburbs of Rutherford and Clifton with his family until 1957 when he moved to live in downtown Manhattan, New York (Hobbs 1981, 231-232; Tsai 1991, 6). Smithson's adult life was undeniably shaped by his Pascalian/Sopranos awareness of engaging the circumference by which to navigate the centre of everyday life. In 1972 Smithson described New Jersey as: "a kind of destroyed California, a derelict California."
Repository Citation
Colman, Felicity. "Passaic Boys are Hell: Robert Smithson's Tag as Temporal and Spatial Marker of the Geographical Self." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 3, 2002, pp. 1–16. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss3/12