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
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. - Robert Smithson
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
- Robert Smithson
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. - Robert Smithson
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. - Robert Smithson
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
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
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. - Robert Smithson
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. - Robert Smithson
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Establish enigmas, not explanations. - Robert Smithson
Establish enigmas, not explanations.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation. - Robert Smithson
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Nature is never finished. - Robert Smithson
Nature is never finished.
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