Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson
Robert Smithsonwas an American artist famous for his use of photography in relation to sculpture and land art...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth2 January 1938
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Smithson quotes about
past garden social-values
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
memories past reality
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
past causes remember
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
art ongoing landscape
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
together events information
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
art development metaphysical
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
memories may amnesia
The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
language metaphorical literal
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification
mutation language advertising
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising
mistake mean artist
Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem
new-york artist cities
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
artist fit categories
Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
language procedures should
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
mental-illness illness process
Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.