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Robert Smithson

"Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head."

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"Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head."

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"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."
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