Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Smithson

http://antiquesandthearts.com/Archives/Images%5C2007-04-10__09-56-25Image3.GIF
Allegorical Landscape- Robert smithson describes it as though he can't even make out what is in it, but it's supposedly the ideal

http://www.licnyc.com/amolRoot/drownout/france/300602/palaisroyal.jpg
Buren's Play on the idea of a 'pedestal' and the higher classes' love of mimicing ancient greece and rome. He takes Institutional critique out of the museum and into a public plaza, the type of space Smithson described as a void.

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