Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1969 – 1970 uses natural materials found on site and manipulates them to create a design that is obviously man made  in the Great Salt Lake in Utah; has an apocalyptic feel to it interested in entropy, which is the idea that the natural order of the world is that things are moving toward disorder, chaos, and decay; that’s why he chose a place where there is very little life and desolate

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1969 – 1970

  • uses natural materials found on site and manipulates them to create a design that is obviously man made 
  • in the Great Salt Lake in Utah; has an apocalyptic feel to it
  • interested in entropy, which is the idea that the natural order of the world is that things are moving toward disorder, chaos, and decay; that’s why he chose a place where there is very little life and desolate
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    brilliant. too bad it’s gone now.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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