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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us
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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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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Robert Smithson
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January 2, 1938
Died:
July 20, 1973
(aged 35)
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