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Birth
1938 (Passaic, New Jersey)
Death
1973 (Amarillo, Texas)
Lived/Active
Texas
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earthworks, concept-site sketches
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Categories of Interest
Modernism
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| Known as one of the major innovative artists of the 20th century
because of his earthworks and his views on the definition of art,
Robert Smithson is frequently associated in people's minds with Spiral Jetty,
a 1970 earthwork that is a 1,500 foot coil of earth and black basalt
extending into Utah's Great Salt Lake at Rozel Point 48 miles from Salt
Lake City. However, shortly after its installation, the
work disappeared because it was covered by rising water levels and
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