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Robert Smithson | Spiral Jetty

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages
Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages
Episode • Feb 21, 2024 • 8m

On the peninsula at Rozel Point on Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Smithson created his most famous monumental sculpture using over six thousand tons of black basalt rocks and earth from the site. The spiral forms a path out onto the lake. It is intended to be not only witnessed but also experienced. Walking the spiral would be an almost meditative act similar to circumambulating or walking around a Hindu temple.

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