Erin Hogan, Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West (University of Chicago, $20). A city-dwelling, solitude-hating connoisseur of modern art hops in her compact car, drives west in search of Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” and a half-dozen other pieces of monumental land art, and finds…herself. Even if (like me) you don’t have any use for minimalism, you’ll be charmed by Hogan’s wryly self-deprecating account of her desert pilgrimage, in the course of which she learned that being alone isn’t so bad after all (TT).
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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