Spiral Jetty | sculpture by Smithson | Britannica (original) (raw)

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contribution of environmental sculpture

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  In environmental sculpture
  …extend a rock and dirt spiral, 1,500 feet (460 m) long, into Great Salt Lake in Utah (Spiral Jetty; 1970). The Bulgarian-born artist Christo has involved large numbers of people in the planning and construction of such mammoth alfresco art projects as Valley Curtain (1972; Rifle Gap, Colo.). Christo’s numerous…
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  In Western painting: Land art
  His Spiral Jetty (1970) consists of a strip of land on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in Utah that was extended into the water with the help of a crew of workmen to produce a spiral measuring 1,500 × 15 feet (457 × 4.5…
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Dia Art Foundation

• In Dia Art Foundation
  …acquired Robert Smithson’s site-specific earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970), located in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, in 1999 and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973–76), in the Great Basin Desert, Utah, in 2018. Dia also maintains and operates Max Neuhaus’s Times Square (1977), De Maria’s The New York Earth Room (1977) and…
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discussed in biography

• In Robert Smithson
  This work, titled Spiral Jetty, can still be seen periodically, depending on the water level.
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