Untangling Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty Art Agenda Phaidon


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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty in 2004, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah. Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 - July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts.


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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1970). Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks, water. 1,500 ft. (457.2 m) long and 15 ft. (4.6 m) wide. Collection Dia Art.


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Robert Smithson made the film Spiral Jetty on returning to New York from Utah, after completing his landmark earthwork of the same name in April 1970. Spiral Jetty is located on the Rozel Point peninsula on the northeastern shore of Great Salt Lake.


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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, a 1970 artwork in Utah's Great Salt Lake, is a unique blend of nature and human intervention. The spiral design, made of basalt stones and soil, changes over time due to natural forces. This reflects Smithson's interest in entropy, the process of things breaking down.


Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty. Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. 1970

Robert Smithson is one of the most enigmatic artists of the late 20th century. In 1970 he created Spiral Jetty, a snail-like coil of heaped stones that extends far out into the Great Salt Lake in.


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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty (1970) lies far from the Great Salt Lake's water on August 01, 2021 near Corinne, Utah. As severe drought continues to take hold in the western United States.


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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty was built by pushing 6,650 tons of earth and basalt into the Great Salt Lake, forming a spiral 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide. As massive as the earthwork.


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Spiral Jetty. Topping any Great Salt Lake must-do list is a day trip out to the Spiral Jetty, a marvel of modern art in the lake's remote north arm. Sculptor Robert Smithson created the jetty in.


Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah April 1970 Artribune

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1500 (if unwound) x 15 foot spiral of basalt, sand, and soil, ©Holt-Smithson Foundation Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris . A monument to paradox and transience. A loud abrasive buzzing bellows from the nightstand and I raise my head, only to be blinded by.


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Spiral Jetty was the first of his pieces to require the acquisition of land rights and earthmoving equipment. He began work on the jetty in April 1970. Construction took six days. In 1970 during the construction of the jetty, Robert Smithson wrote and directed a 32-minute color film, "Spiral Jetty". The film was shot by Smithson and his wife.


Untangling Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty Art Agenda Phaidon

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty by Rebecca Taylor Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1500 (if unwound) x 15 foot spiral, basalt, sand, and soil ©Holt-Smithson Foundation. Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. A monument to paradox and transience


Spiral Jetty Holt/Smithson Foundation

December 28, 2020 Victoria Sambunaris On the northeastern edge of Utah's Great Salt Lake, a 1,500-foot spiral of black basalt rock coils counterclockwise off the shoreline. This monumental,.


Spiral Jetty Holt/Smithson Foundation

By Rebecca Taylor Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970 (Great Salt Lake, Utah) (photo: Gianfranco Gorgoni) ©Holt-Smithson Foundation A monument to paradox and transience


Explaining Smithson's Spiral Jetty art Agenda Phaidon

Robert Smithson designed and directed the construction of his iconic work the Spiral Jetty in April 1970. The Jetty is a site-specific work, meant to interact with changing conditions of the surrounding water, land, and atmosphere.


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The Source of Robert Smithson's Spiral. By Robert Sullivan. June 18, 2014. In 1959, Robert Smithson, a young abstract painter who would eventually become known as a pioneer of land art, went.


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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1970) Great Salt Lake, Utah. Mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks, water. 1,500 ft. (457.2 meters) long and 15 ft. (4.6 meters) wide. Collection of Dia Art Foundation. Photograph: Gianfranco Gorgoni