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Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem

Robert Smithson

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

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Size determines an object, but scale determines art.

Robert Smithson

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art.

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A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

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Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

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Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

Born: January 2, 1938

Died: July 20, 1973 (aged 35)

Bio: Robert Smithson was an American artist famous for his use of photography in relation to sculpture and land art.

Known for:

Spiral Jetty (1970)
Asphalt Rundown (1969)
Broken Circle / Spiral Hill
Chalk-Mirror Displacement (1969)
Glue Pour (1969)

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