Robert+Smithson+Sculpture


 * NOTES: Hobbs, Robert. __Robert Smithson: Sculpture__ . New York, NY: Smithmark Pub, 1981. Print. **

-divided his work into two categories: ‘sites’ and ‘non-sites’ -sites= land art built on site, in nature -non-sites= natural materials (ie rocks, dirt, sand) taken from nature and brought indoors to a museum, often combined with mirrors -concept first presented in //Artforum// in Sept 1968, "A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects" - 1972, in a footnote to “The Spiral Jetty,” Smithson listed properties associated with the two states: 1. Open Limits 2. A Series of Points
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 * SITE:

3. Outer Coordinates
4. Subtraction 5. Indeterminate Certainty 6. Scattered Information 7. Reflection 8. Edge 9. Some Place (physical) 10. Many || NONSITE: Closed Limits An Array of Matter Inner Coordinates Addition Determinate Uncertainty Contained Information Mirror Center No Place (abstract) One || p -