David Smith : collected writings, lectures, and interviews / by Smith, David, 1906-1965

Table of Contents: “…, 1952 -- Notes on details-technical, c. 1952-53 -- Do we dare to do bad works, 1952-53 -- Sometimes a drawing gets too complete, 1953 -- Lecture, Portland Art Museum, 1953 -- Books : African classics for the Modern, 1953 -- Sketchbook notes : From the textures; The part to the whole; There is something rather noble about junk, 1953 -- Notes while driving, 1953 -- The artist and Art in America, 1953 -- I sat by my window, 1953 -- Thoughts on sculpture, 1953 -- Art and religion, 1953 -- How little I know, 1953-54 -- The artist's image, 1954 -- Notes from a sketchbook titled "Nature," 1954 -- Second thoughts on sculpture, 1954 -- The artist, the critic, and the scholar, 1954 -- Tradition, 1954 -- Lecture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1954 -- Contribution by the aesthetician, 1954-55 -- Define technique, c. 1955 -- Editions, duplication, c. 1955 -- It has got to make big, 1955 -- Notes-improved upon, 1955 -- To make a mark, 1955 -- The artist in society, 1955 -- Drawing, 1955 -- And drawings before the etching or the print, 1955 -- Sketch-oil painting-the influence-the historian, c. 1956 -- González : first master of the torch, 1956 -- Lecture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1956 -- Sketchbook notes : He may be intuitive enough to make it; nothing put down with force and conviction is meaningless, 1957 -- Sculpture and architecture, 1957 -- Selden Rodman, conversation with David Smith, 1957 -- False statements, 1957 -- Contemporary sculpture and architecture, 1957 -- American art at the MET, 1958 -- Is today's artist with or against the past?…”