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Robert Smithson

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Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.


— Robert Smithson


#everybody #nobody #nought #zero

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.


— Robert Smithson


#artists #confined #output #their #themselves

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.


— Robert Smithson


#causing #forget #future #instead #like

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.


— Robert Smithson


#becomes #charge #disengaged #gallery #loses

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.


— Robert Smithson


#demolished #emotion #glance #suggested #words

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.


— Robert Smithson


#art history #explosive #faster #history #into

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.


— Robert Smithson


#development #dialectical #metaphysical #should

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.


— Robert Smithson


#categories #expected #fit #fraudulent #into

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.


— Robert Smithson


#fall #feeble #function #into #meaning

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.


— Robert Smithson


#convalescence #going #kind #lights #neutral






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Mature work
In 1967 Smithson began exploring industrial areas around New Jersey and was fascinated by the sight of dump trucks excavating tons of earth and rock that he described in an essay as the equivalents of the monuments of antiquity. As well as works of art Smithson produced a good deal of theoretical and critical writing including the 2D paper work A Heap of Language which sought to show how writing might become an artwork. Of the work Greg Lindquist professed that it was a "quintessential example of fusing the natural and its human manufacture.

Robert Smithson (January 2 1938–July 20 1973) was an American artist famous for his land art.

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