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Conrad Bakker Recreated All 1,100+ Books in Pioneering Land Artist Robert Smithson's Personal Library

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An autodidact and polymath, Robert Smithson cemented himself as one of the pre-eminent land artists in his short lifetime. Along with his fellow artist and wife Nancy Holt, Smithson pioneered a new way of working that explored connections to the landscape and place and endlessly probed the formation of knowledge. When he died in a plane crash in 1973 at just 35 years old, he left behind a vast personal library that represented his broad interest…
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Colossal broke the news in on Thursday, October 16, 2025.
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