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Robert Smithson, the Glossary

Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts.^[1]

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Land artists
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1973

Airspeed

In aviation, airspeed is the speed of an aircraft relative to the air it is flying through (which itself is usually moving relative to the ground due to wind).

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Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo (Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County.

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Art gallery

An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed.

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Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school in the American Fine Arts Society in Manhattan, New York City.

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Artforum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.

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Beechcraft Baron

The Beechcraft Baron is a light twin-engined piston aircraft designed and produced by Beechcraft.

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Bingham Canyon Reclamation Project

The Bingham Canyon Reclamation Project, in Utah, was a 1973 site-specific mine reclamation design that artist Robert Smithson submitted to the mine's management company, Kennecott Copper Corporation.

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Brooklyn Museum Art School

The Brooklyn Museum Art School was a non-degree-granting professional school that opened at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York in the summer of 1941.

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The Bruce High Quality Foundation is an arts collective in Brooklyn, New York City, the United States, which was "created to foster an alternative to everything." The collective is made up of five to eight rotating and anonymous members, most or all of whom are Cooper Union graduates.

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Catholic art

Catholic art is art produced by or for members of the Catholic Church.

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Central Park

Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was the first landscaped park in the United States.

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Cleopatra's Needle (New York City)

Cleopatra's Needle in New York City is one of a pair of obelisks, together named Cleopatra's Needles, that were moved from the ruins of the Caesareum of Alexandria, Egypt, in the 19th century.

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Clifton, New Jersey

Clifton is a city in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Collage

Collage (from the coller, "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

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College Art Association

The College Art Association of America (CAA) is the principal organization in the United States for professionals in the visual arts, from students to art historians to emeritus faculty.

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Crystal

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.

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Dialectic

Dialectic (διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argumentation.

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Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death.

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Dump truck

A dump truck, known also as a dumping truck, dump trailer, dumper trailer, dump lorry or dumper lorry or a dumper for short, is used for transporting materials (such as dirt, gravel, or demolition waste) for construction as well as coal.

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Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (born 1936) is an American environmentalist, landscape preservationist, author of numerous books and essays, and a former park administrator.

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Emmen, Netherlands

Emmen is a municipality and town of the province of Drenthe in the northeastern Netherlands.

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Entropy

Entropy is a scientific concept that is most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.

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Generative art

Generative art is post-conceptual art that has been created (in whole or in part) with the use of an autonomous system.

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George Kubler

George Alexander Kubler (July 26, 1912 - October 3, 1996) was an American art historian and among the foremost scholars on the art of Pre-Columbian America and Ibero-American Art.

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Graffiti

Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.

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Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.

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Homoeroticism

Homoeroticism is sexual attraction between members of the same sex, including both male–male and female–female attraction.

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J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media.

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Kent State University

Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio, United States.

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Kent, Ohio

Kent is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the largest city in Portage County.

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Land art

Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, largely associated with Great Britain and the United StatesArt in the modern era: A guide to styles, schools, & movements.

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Landscape architecture

Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes.

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Lee Ranaldo

Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth.

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Light aircraft

A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a maximum gross takeoff weight of or less.

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Liquid Crystal Institute

The former Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI) at Kent State University is now renamed the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute.

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List of arches and bridges in Central Park

Central Park in New York City has thirty-six ornamental spans, most of which were built in the 1860s as part of the park's construction.

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Mike Nelson (artist)

Michael Nelson (born 20 August 1967) is a contemporary British installation artist.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism was an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, and it is most strongly associated with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Modern art

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era.

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Nancy Holt

Nancy Holt (April 5, 1938 – February 8, 2014) was an American artist most known for her public sculpture, installation art, concrete poetry, and land art. Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt are American postmodern artists and land artists.

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National Transportation Safety Board

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Neon lighting

Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases.

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Passaic, New Jersey

Passaic is a city in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Pastoral

The pastoral genre of literature, art, or music depicts an idealised form of the shepherd's lifestyle – herding livestock around open areas of land according to the seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture.

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Physique magazine

Physique magazines or beefcake magazines were magazines devoted to physique photography — that is, photographs of muscular "beefcake" men – typically young and attractive – in athletic poses, usually in revealing, minimal clothing.

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Picturesque

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.

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Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s.

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Primary Structures (1966 exhibition)

Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors was an exhibition presented by the Jewish Museum in New York City from April 27 to June 12 in 1966.

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Process art

Process art is an artistic movement where the end product of art and craft, the objet d’art (work of art/found object), is not the principal focus; the process of its making is one of the most relevant aspects if not the most important one: the gathering, sorting, collating, associating, patterning, and moreover the initiation of actions and proceedings.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smithson

Also known as Smithson, Robert.

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See also

Brooklyn Museum Art School alumni

Land artists

Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1973

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