Contents
Note to Readers
Prologue and Background
Prehistory and Early Painting
1. Man of Sorrow
2. Brother’s Keeper
3. Drunk on Blood
Clandestine Fantasies, 1962–1964
4. Burying the Angel
5. Secret Partner
Mutation of Artistic Persona, 1965–1968
6. A Better Entrance
7. Locked Within
8. Transmuted
9. From the Ground, Upward
Professional Consummation, 1969–1970
10. Mirroring Absence
11. The Site of the Spiral: Thicker Than Water
12. Inside the Spiral
Expansion and Returns, 1971–1973
13. Reclamations
14. Closing the Circle
Gratitudes
Notes
Robert Smithson’s Library: A Selective Bibliography
Index