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' Wendover. Yet if this was a kind of cliché, it was appropriated from a film that had itself been a self-conscious jumble of genres and clichés. $.fn.serializeFormJSON = function () { It is a mix of gravel and dirt roads out to the jetty. Ganz besonders ist Spiral Jetty vom temporären Aspekt geprägt: Die Spirale ist Wind und Wetter ausgesetzt und wird somit nach und nach zerstört. Spiral Jetty is located 15 miles south of Golden Spike National Historic Site (GSNHS…we were there three years ago). setTimeout(function() { function closeSignupBar() { }) I see the Utah Monolith phenomenon more as a reaction formation to the domination of information, of a Wikipedia and Google Earth world where everything feels like it should be knowable instantly, where any cocktail-party disagreement over trivia is just a question for Siri. space and spatialized paradigms of thought, as well as the processes of desubjecti-fication and decentering manifest in and through a radical encounter with time. $modal[0], { contentType: 'application/json; charset=UTF-8', 3 The jetty projects out from the lakeshore on a long, straight stem, and terminates in a widdershins spiral , a shape often depicted in Native American petrogylph s. Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is an earthwork along the Great Salt Lake and Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels are huge concrete pieces in the desert. Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty . }, Jul 7, 2017 - Explore Pamela Burnham's board "Spiral Jetty", followed by 312 people on Pinterest. }); })(); Want to stay ahead of the art world? It is left an enigma. bottom: 0 Spiral Jetty is arguably the world's most important piece of earth art and, without question, Utah's most important artwork. 2. + '
' while (c.charAt(0)==' ') { //and we can just return here. Made of black basalt rocks and earth gathered from the site, Spiral Jetty is a 15-foot-wide coil that stretches more than 1,500 feet into the lake. //default prefix is 'artnet_newsletter_' setCookie(cookieName, value, expirationMinutes); }, 100); closeSignupBar(); expiration_minutes: 5 + '<\/div>' Smithson engaged two machine operators and rented a tractor, a huge front loader, and two dump trucks. //if there are cookies indicating that we shouldn't show the signup bar, then the modal won't have been added to the page Spiral Jetta Summer is a chronicle of this adventure, and it reveals Hogan’s unpretentious and boisterous narrative flair on the roads of middle-of-nowhere Utah in pursuit of Robert Smithson’s classic work Spiral Jetty. + '<\/div>'; if (generalSettings.loadFontAwesome) { It is 1500 feet in length and is about 15 feet wide made from sand, dirt and basalt rock. Spiral Jetty's songs: Listen to songs by Spiral Jetty on Myspace, Stream Free Online Music by Spiral Jetty Spiral Jetty is a solid monument on earth, and it will disappear into the earth unmonumental. var SignupForm = { Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, eds. + '
' } Nancy Holt, an artist exploring the human perception of time and space, earth and sky (that’s deep stuff), built the Sun Tunnels in a remote valley in the Great Basin Desert, as a unique art project completed in 1976. The most famous jetty is probably Spiral Jetty, a large sculpture created by the artist Robert Smithson in 1970. var ctx = this; function slideInModal(upOrDown) { } Spiral Jetty, on the other hand, is ongoing; given geological time, his whorl would curl tighter and tighter until it broke off into a Catherine wheel that would spin slowly out into the lake. Comparing a Google Earth screengrab of “Spiral Jetty” taken by Hyperallergic in 2014 to one today shows a similarly dramatic movement of the shoreline away from the sculpture. + '<\/div>' (Photo by Soren Harward via Wikimedia Commons.) closedSignupBar: { SignupForm.init($modal.find('form'), function onSuccess() { That’s a feature, not a bug. Outer space was very much on Smithson's mind when he created Spiral Jetty. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, University of California Press / DIA Art Foundation, 2005. + '<\/div>' It was discovered on November 18 by biologists assisting Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources as they were doing a count of bighorn sheep. data: JSON.stringify( $form.serializeFormJSON() ), Practice: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates. Google Maps went live in February 2005. What’s important to understand about the tradition is that, in the United States, Land Art emerged from the same wave as Minimalism and Conceptual art—art movements obsessed with the industrial and the mediated. //hide on mobile phones setNewsletterCookie('signedUp', 1); "Spiral Jetty" — a 1,500-foot-long, 15-foot-wide amalgam of rock, earth and salt — is an iconic earthwork built directly into the lakebed from materials found on site. setNewsletterCookie('closedSignupBar', 1); The Utah Monolith. They also ascertained when, exactly, it was installed: some time between July and October 2016. The work was actually constructed twice; the first time requiring six days. var valid = ctx.validate( $form, $email); I’m not sure Utah’s land management authorities understood just what forces they were unleashing when they first light-heartedly announced their find. slideInModal('Down'); Who wants to see a piece of man-made art that also can be seen from space? * Generic setCookie() method, used by setNewsletterCookie(). var d = new Date(); // Show signup failure error and hide other errors Great Salt Lake, Utah (Rozel Point; 45 miles west of Brigham City, 100 miles from Salt Lake City) Black rock, salt crystals, earth, red water (algae) 3 1/2 x 15 x 1500 feet . The Spiral Jetty is unique land art surrounded by beauty that is out of this world. url: $form.attr('action'), }; This map was created by a user. Juxtaposing the industrial violence of Spiral Jetty’s construction with the peaceful beauty of its surrounds, the film provides an ambivalent, disorienting perspective of Smithson’s earthwork. + '<\/div>' Simply recall the line from the auction scene in which closeSignupBar(); The Spiral Jetty is unique land art surrounded by beauty that is out of this world. setNewsletterCookie('recentlyShown', 1); It won't remain the same if its context changes. Spiral Jetty / Photo courtesy of Matt VanHorn Sun Tunnels. The Utah Monolith is a silly story. It can be very dusty/muddy depending on the obvious. recentlyShown: { Over the years it has accumulated a patina of salt crystals when the level of the lake is low. }, 7500); Walking down and onto the jetty I had the image of Smithson from his film, running on the jetty rocks. Walking along the rocks was a choice but not a necessity, one could walk in the salt space between the rocks. von Sebastian Egenhofer, Inge Hinterwaldner und Christian Spies, Paderborn 2012. Comparing a Google Earth screengrab of “Spiral Jetty” taken by Hyperallergic in 2014 to one today shows a similarly dramatic movement of the shoreline away from the sculpture. $email.focus(); + '
' var head = document.head Your stock Porsche has the necessary ground clearance and off road tires aren’t needed. Land Art was both a reaction against those tendencies and exported them back into the non-urban environment, which is why some of the same figures, including Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria, and Nancy Holt, straddled the lines between the various trends. + '<\/div>' script.integrity = "sha256-hVVnYaiADRTO2PzUGmuLJr8BLUSjGIZsDYGmIJLv2b8="; All Rights Reserved.var w = Math.max(document.documentElement.clientWidth, window.innerWidth || 0), It is a mix of gravel and dirt roads out to the jetty. Practice: Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial . From that gyrating space emerged the possibility of the Spiral Jetty. + '
' script.src = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.min.js"; Outer space was very much on Smithson's mind when he created Spiral Jetty. But the fact that the monolith reads as an enigma, a puzzle, and a portent to unpack is clearly key. }, Rising lake levels beginning in the 1980s (with the historic high in 1986–1987 at 4,211.85 feet) kept Spiral Jetty submerged for more than 20 years, the black stones floating their question. */ This is a Cayenne/Macan off road tour but all Porsches are welcome to GSNHS. function setCookie(cname, cvalue, expMinutes, prefix) { var a = this.serializeArray(); The now-closed Dwan Gallery in New York paid for the construction and the lease of the land; a local construction company provided the labor and equipment. } auf seinen Lektüren der Schriften des amerikanischen Schriftstellers und Gesellschaftskritikers William S. Burroughs und den Science Fiction-Autors J. G. Ballard basierten. + '
' .done(function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) { The Spiral Jetty was created back in 1970 by American sculptor Robert Smithson. sensitivity: 50, Smithson constructed the 4,500 457-meter (1,500-foot) jetty out of rock and earth. if (!onSuccess) { As art, it must be said, this is a pseudo-aesthetic. In 1970 he completed Partially Buried Woodshed, Kent, Ohio, and the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake, along with a film of the same name that revolves around that work. See more ideas about Robert smithson, Earth art, Environmental art. He began work on the jetty in April 1970. These would be his tools. if (!$modal.length) { // Handler for close signup button expirationMinutes = daysToMinutes(settings.expiration_days); var initOuibounce = setInterval(function() { No ideas, no concepts, no systems, no structures, no abstractions could hold themselves together in the actuality of that evidence. function daysToMinutes(numDays) { From that gyrating space emerged the possibility of the Spiral Jetty. Yes, you heard me. + '
' And it’s certainly not about the formal interest of the workmanlike construction of riveted metal planks over an armature of wood. if (!window.jQuery) loadJQuery(); Die Skulptur, der Film und die zugehörigen Skizzen und Texte sind als mehrschichtiges Gesamtkunstwerk zu verstehen. + 'Signup failed. Spiral Jetty, pursed by the cameraman in a helicopter whose noise fills the audio track and whose shadow occasionally passes across the screen. setTimeout(function() { + '
' No ideas, no concepts, no systems, no structures, no abstractions could hold themselves together in the actuality of that evidence. But it was different now. They snapped photos. head.appendChild(link); (The memory seems a transmission from another world now, after the cataclysms of 2020.). } else { u. Fn. Browse 87,279 jetty stock photos and images available, or search for busselton jetty or spiral jetty to find more great stock photos and pictures. // ------------------------------------------------------------------- The interest in Spiral Jetty, or Lightning Field, or Sun Tunnels connects to your understanding of them as authored installations, the product of artists with particular passions. submit: function($form, onSuccess) { A versatile and creative thinker, Fried has covered centuries of art making, including the long-term project of tracing the roots of American minimalist art back to French painting of the eighteenth century. function appendNewsletterSignup() { But interest in the Utah Monolith isn’t exactly about macho authorial wrestling of form from nature, or even the drama of the ruddy crags in the landscape around it. Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West is a three-week pilgrimage that takes Hogan through Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to Robert Smithsons Sprial Jetty, Michael Heizers Double Negative, Walter De Marias Lightning Field, … + '
' googletag.pubads().setTargeting("width", w), googletag.pubads().setTargeting("height", h), 1 == isnewsletter && googletag.pubads().setTargeting("isfirstpage", ['Y', pagetypeforce] ) 3257 Dunmore Rd SE Medicine Hat, AB T1B 3R2 [P] 403.527.1101 [F] 403.528.5696 $form.find('.invalid-email').show().siblings().hide(); onSuccess(); Über die Spiral Jetty hat Smithson einen gleichnamigen, 32-minütigen Dokumentarfilm produziert. var cookieSettings = { if (prefix == undefined) { James Turrell, Skyspace, The Way of Color. } // FUNCTIONS return ""; Spiral Jetty was the first of his pieces to require the acquisition of land rights and earthmoving equipment. María Orvañanos and Eva Quintana Crelis, Alias, 2009, 186 pp. document.cookie = prefix + cname + "=" + cvalue + ";" + expires + ";path=/"; } Learn how to create your own. + '