American - Artist | January 2, 1938 - July 20, 1973
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Robert Smithson
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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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Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.
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Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
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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.
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Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
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Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
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Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
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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.
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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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Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
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History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
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