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A compelling psychobiography. . . The human figure who emerges from this book is far more complex than we have seen or read before. Monomaniacal, religious, sexually ambivalent – he was, in the words of more than one friend, ‘perverse’. [And] driven, in a way that has been rarely described before. Richard Williams, Burlington Magazine

Definitive. . . an indispensable book for the study, 'from the inside,' of a major American artistic personality. Joseph Masheck, Brooklyn Rail

Inside the Spiral is one of the most informative and well written biographies I have ever had the pleasure of reading. To use the American vernacular, Suzaan Boettger can write like “hot-damn”! Robert Maddox-Harle, Leonardo

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Above, Jack Robinson photographed Smithson for Vogue, November 1969. Steve Durtschi, Utah pilot and geologist, captured the Spiral Jetty in May 2011 in the roseate water that had drawn Robert Smithson to Rozel Point of The Great Salt Lake. It the first of 30 color illustrations; another 90 are b/w, many, like these two, published for the first time.