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
museums looks tombs
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
erosion ideas rivers
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.
museums may vacancy
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
one-day important photograph
One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph.
mutation language advertising
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising