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Robert Smithson
American Artist
Born: Jan 2, 1938
Died: Jul 20, 1973
Art Artists Finished History Language Own
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. Robert Smithson
National Our Scenic Parks Ideals Calmness Bliss Surround National Parks Heavenly Nostalgia Eternal Even
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. Robert Smithson
Nature Rather Development Does Sprawling Line Proceed Straight Straight Line
Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. Robert Smithson
Matter Visiting Void Going Museum
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control. Robert Smithson
Result Prison Control Out Some Fact Supporting Got Cultural End Up Artists In Fact Hold Which Them Apparatus Imagine
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Robert Smithson
Art Own Rather Takes Limits Exhibition His Cultural Curator Than Artist Confinement Place Asking Set
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. Robert Smithson
Everything Like Looks Turning Tombs Museum Museums
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. Robert Smithson
Art Architecture Finished Painting Habit Sculpture
Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Robert Smithson
Fraudulent Categories Fit Expected Artists
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. Robert Smithson
Words Fall Own Mental Feeble Banal Meaning Function Phenomena
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising. Robert Smithson
Language Monumental Mutations Thus Advertising Because Becomes
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. Robert Smithson
Language Developing Isolated Occurrence Procedure Should Ever
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. Robert Smithson
Art Development Dialectical Metaphysical Should
Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. Robert Smithson
Words Physical Mental Mental Processes Processes Derived Things
Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. Robert Smithson
Problem Mistakes More Proven Than Any Often Artists Mean
Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content. Robert Smithson
Hopelessly About Seem Content Questions Form Inadequate

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