PROQUEST-CSA, LLC- MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE LICENSED MATERIALS OR ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. Only fair use as provided by the United States copyright law is permitted. JERRY SALTZĬOPYRIGHT: Copyright Village Voice Oct 4-Oct 10, 2006. Robert Smithsons Spiral Jetty, a 1970 artwork in Utahs Great Salt Lake, is a unique blend of nature and human intervention. Either way I was freezing, wet thrilled, terrified, and nervous that he was a mass murderer. ![]() He was at once a device of awe and terror, as well as a representation of my inability to feel these feelings without shame and doubt. Whether he was taking his own spiritual cure or performing a selfbaptism, he became a portal to think about this work of art. Below are 15 works that help tell the story of Land art as it has expanded and evolved. Just off the main and of the sculpture what I had thought was an abandoned car seattumed outto be a 6-7,350-pound, totally naked man, alive, floating face up in the saltwater. Then something amazing happened that made this rush make sense. I had come all this way to see a sculpture by an artist who is talked about as a theoretician, a scientist, and an aestheticiangeologist, and I was experiencing a romantic gush. ![]() These extreme conditions not only made me put my boots on the wrong feet, they threw me into an ersatz sublime euphoria. Go to Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels page Walter De Maria, The Vertical Earth Kilometer. The lake water was churning gunmetalgrayand an unworldly salmon-pink shade. Go to Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty page Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels. After three hours of driving north and west from central Salt Lake City and almost turning back at the last minute because the dirt road we were navigating was almost washed-out, Spiral Jetty came into plain view.īecause of the weather, the driving rain, the lighting bolts across the shore, and something else I`ll mention shortly, my first thoughts were a clutter of Edgar Allan Poe horror stories and Caspar David Friedrich paintings. Recent reports placed it above water level again, so I went to see for myself. And its made in the shape of a spiral, Smithson. While it was built just above water level, from around 1974 until late 2002, Spiral Jetty has been underwater. The Spiral Jetty is a coil of black basalt rock and earth that spins about 1,500 feet into the Great Salt Lake. Made of huge boulders and masses of dirt deposited (under Smithson`s watchful eye) by a small team of construction workers using bulldozers and dump trucks, the sculpture stretches about 1,500 feet from the shore at Rozel Point into the Great Salt Lake, in a long spiral configuration, a sort of arm making a curly fist. Smithson`s signature work was built in April 1970 for around $8,000. I went to see Robert Smithson`s touchstone earthwork, Spire/Jetty. On Friday, September 15, the exact day that Utah`s high-desert summer flipped into harsh mountain winter, I finally got to see a work of art that had previously only existed for me in the imagination and asa photograph.
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