| Preface | |
| Introduction: Reading Robert Smithson | |
| Biographical Note | |
| Quick Millions (1965) | p. 3 |
| Donald Judd (1965) | p. 4 |
| The Crystal Land (1966) | p. 7 |
| Entropy and the New Monuments (1966) | p. 10 |
| The X Factor in Art (1966) | p. 24 |
| The Domain of the Great Bear (1966) | p. 26 |
| Quasi-Infinities and the Waning of Space (1966) | p. 34 |
| The Cryosphere (1966) | p. 38 |
| Interpolation of the Enantiomorphic Chambers (1966) | p. 39 |
| Some Void Thoughts on Museums (1967) | p. 41 |
| What is a Museum? A Dialogue Between Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson (1967) | p. 43 |
| Towards the Development of an Air Terminal Site (1967) | p. 52 |
| Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read (1967) | p. 61 |
| Ultramoderne (1967) | p. 62 |
| Letter to the Editor (1967) | p. 66 |
| A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey (1967) | p. 68 |
| Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction (1970) | p. 75 |
| A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art (1968) | p. 78 |
| A Thing is a Hole in a Thing It is Not (1968) | p. 95 |
| The Establishment (1968) | p. 97 |
| A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects (1968) | p. 100 |
| Minus Twelve (1968) | p. 114 |
| Aerial Art (1969) | p. 116 |
| Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan (1969) | p. 119 |
| The Artist and Politics: A Symposium (1970) | p. 134 |
| Gyrostasis (1970) | p. 136 |
| A Cinematic Atopia (1971) | p. 138 |
| The Spiral Jetty (1972) | p. 143 |
| Cultural Confinement (1972) | p. 154 |
| Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape (1973) | p. 157 |
| Smithson's Non-Site Sights / Anthony Robbin (1969) | p. 175 |
| Earth / Thomas W. Leavitt (1969) | p. 177 |
| Fragments of a Conversation / William C. Lipke (1969) | p. 188 |
| Fragments of an Interview with Patsy Norvell (1969) | p. 192 |
| Four Conversations Between Dennis Wheeler and Robert Smithson / Edited by Eva Schmidt (1969-1970) | p. 196 |
| Interview with Robert Smithson / Paul Toner (1970) | p. 234 |
| Discussions with Heizer, Oppenheim, Smithson / Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp (1970) | p. 242 |
| "...The Earth, Subject to Cataclysms, is a Cruel Master" / Gregoire Muller (1971) | p. 253 |
| Conversation with Robert Smithson / Bruce Kurtz (1972) | p. 262 |
| Interview with Robert Smithson for the Archives of American Art / Smithsonian Institution / Paul Cummings (1972) | p. 270 |
| Conversation in Salt Lake City / Gianni Pettena (1972) | p. 297 |
| Entropy Made Visible / Alison Sky (1973) | p. 301 |
| Robert Smithson on Duchamp / Moira Roth (1973) | p. 310 |
| From the Temptations | p. 315 |
| From the Walls of Dis | p. 316 |
| From the City | p. 317 |
| To the Eye of Blood | p. 318 |
| The Lamentations of the Paroxysmal Artist | p. 319 |
| The Iconography of Desolation (c. 1962) | p. 320 |
| The Eliminator (1964) | p. 327 |
| The Hum (c. 1965) | p. 328 |
| A Short Description of Two Mirrored Crystal Structures (1965) | p. 328 |
| Response to a Questionnaire from Irving Sandler (1966) | p. 329 |
| Colossal Nullifications (Part I) (c. 1966) | p. 331 |
| Atlantic City (H-13) (1966) | p. 332 |
| The Shape of the Future and Memory (1966) | p. 332 |
| Predictable Model for Unpredictable Project (c. 1966) | p. 333 |
| Proposal for the Detection of Approximate Period Quantity (c. 1966) | p. 334 |
| An Esthetics of Disappointment (c. 1966) | p. 334 |
| Sol Lewitt (1966-67) | p. 335 |
| A Refutation of Historical Humanism (1966-67) | p. 336 |
| The Pathetic Fallacy in Esthetics (1966-67) | p. 337 |
| Abstract Mannerism (1966-67) | p. 339 |
| The Artist as Site-Seen, or, a Dintorphic Essay (1966-67) | p. 340 |
| What Really Spoils Michelangelo's Sculpture (1966-67) | p. 346 |
| From Ivan the Terrible to Roger Corman or Paradoxes of Conduct in Mannerism as Reflected in the Cinema (1967) | p. 349 |
| Proposal for Earthworks and Landmarks to be Built on the Fringes of the Fort Worth-Dallas Regional Air Terminal Site (1966-67) | p. 354 |
| Untitled (Air Terminal - Windows) (1967) | p. 355 |
| See the Monuments of Passaic New Jersey (1967) | p. 356 |
| The Monument Outline for a Film (1967) | p. 357 |
| Pointless Vanishing Points (1967) | p. 358 |
| A Small Test for Jo Baer (1968) | p. 360 |
| Outline for Yale Symposium Against Absolute Categories (1968) | p. 360 |
| Sites and Settings (1968) | p. 362 |
| Untitled (Site Data) (1968) | p. 362 |
| A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites (1968) | p. 364 |
| Non-Site Number 2 (1968) | p. 365 |
| Hidden Trails in Art (1969) | p. 366 |
| Can Man Survive? (1969) | p. 367 |
| Letter to Gyorgy Kepes (1969) | p. 369 |
| Look (1970) | p. 370 |
| Art and Dialectics (1971) | p. 370 |
| Art Through the Camera's Eye (c. 1971) | p. 371 |
| Untitled (1971) | p. 376 |
| Letter to John Dixon (1972) | p. 377 |
| Production for Production's Sake (1972) | p. 378 |
| Untitled (1972) | p. 379 |
| Proposal (1972) | p. 379 |
| Glossary of Names | p. 381 |
| Bibliography | p. 384 |
| Index | p. 387 |
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