The earthworker.

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  • Author(s): Prodger, Michael (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    New Statesman. 11/13/2020, Vol. 149 Issue 5546, p52-53. 2p. 2 Color Photographs.
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    • Abstract:
      The Critics: Arts The work of Robert Smithson comes tightly wrapped in some unforgiving artistic concepts. Smithson won early renown as a painter and collagist but became disenchanted with the traditional art world - museums, he thought, were "mausoleums" - and his interest quickly turned to the landscape, both manmade and natural. The irony being that as such well-meaning attempts are made to conserve the jetty, Smithson - in making it in the first place - was willing entropy on. [Extracted from the article]