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This paper was presented at the third annual History Across the Humanities conference, February, 2017, Youngstown, Ohio.
An interview with the writer, artist and editor Robert Horvitz speaking about his early years writing for Artforum, his friendship with Alan Sonfist, his disagreement with Jack Burnham about separating nature from culture, his 14 years as... more
Sítios formados por estruturas de terra na Amazônia são conhecidos desde muito por exploradores coloniais, viajantes, arqueólogos e demais pesquisadores. Na última década um tipo especial de sítio – conhecido amplamente como “geoglifos” –... more
In an annual anthology devoted to J.G. Ballard, a biographical and psychological analysis of Robert Smithson's references to science fiction, and of the novelist's and artist's responses to each other's work.
Recent work by the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust has revealed new information about the construction and preservation of these mighty monuments. Paul Belford reports from the Anglo-Welsh borderland.
«Осаждение разума: земляные проекты» (1968) – программное эссе Роберта Смитсона (1938–1973), американского художника, скульптора, теоретика искусства, одного из основоположников ленд-арта. В этом тексте Смитсон сопоставляет устройство... more
O r i g i n a l l y p u b l i s h e d on-l i n e b y t h e O hio A r c h a e o l o g i c a l C o u n c i l , 2 0 0 8 , h t t p : / / w w w. o h i o a r c h a e o l o g y. o r g / 3 9-r e s o u r c e s / r e s e a r c h / a r t i c l e... more
Book chapter published in Great Salt Lake: An Overview of Change (Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, Department of Natural Resources, 2nd ed.): 553-560
The following essay provides a brief historic overview of the tendencies of the 1960s and 70s that have challenged ideas associated with art making, aesthetic categories and location. It was first conceived as a keynote address at the... more
Exhibition catalog accompanying show of the same name, Granary Art Center, Ephraim, Utah, 2015
In various disciplines, particularly those that utilise techniques developed in the geosciences, the display, analysis and interpretation of three-dimensional (3D) data is very important. This is also the case in archaeology. Irrespective... more
What I wish to show in this presentation is how certain Hopewell sites may have been connected to each other through religion and mythology. The relevance of this to Chaco and the discussion at hand is not in the listing of specific... more
Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on novel forms—such as installation, performance, event, video, film, earthwork, and intermedia works with interactive and networked... more
Robert Smithson´s earthworks with spiral forms are sublime because they offer repeated simple forms, whereas his projects for realisations with tar are picturesque because they offer traces of past processes for narrative readings.... more
Il saggio che segue prova a collezionare episodi, produrre documenti e testimoni, ricomporre storie disperse per giungere a una vicenda più ampia: l’affermazione prima, lo smarrimento poi di un progetto modernista con tratti identitari.... more
History of American artist Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels (1973-76) followed by an interview with Holt. Book chapter published in Great Salt Lake: An Overview of Change (Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, Department of Natural Resources, 2nd... more
Paul Belford examines the historical and archaeological trajectory of Offa’s Dyke, and considers motivations behind its construction and formation, including political, ideological and defensive requirements. In the context of a book... more
Today, the name Danevirke is used as an umbrella term for a series of linear earthworks and walls around the town of Schleswig in northern Germany close to the Danish border. Historically, the Designation ‘ Danevirke ’ (also encompassing... more
The Newark Earthworks complex is unprecedented in the Hopewell world in terms of its scale and the precision of both its geometry and its embedded astronomical alignments. The diversity of discrete earthwork components suggests that each... more
Nigerian archaeology has been through a series of developmental stages. The current trend in the studies of urbanization takes a cue from postcolonial pedagogy, which seeks to interpret indigenous material cultures from the eye view of... more
This paper presents and contextualizes the results of recent research at the Cedar Creek Earthworks (AaHq-2) in Essex County, Ontario, one of the few remaining Late Prehistoric earthen enclosures in the western Lake Erie region. First... more
Recent archaeological investigations, building on previous work, establish more clearly that the Serpent Mound plateau has been a focus of intensive, repeated activity both in prehistory and more recently. In the 1880s, Frederic Ward... more