Published on the occasion of the 1982 Venice Biennale's 40th anniversary for the United States Pavilion. Edited by Robert Hobbs. 111pp. Drawings and full color illustrations of Smithson's landworks.
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It is as if what mattered was merely the existence of each apodictic pronouncement, rather than prosaic details like where or when. Smithson: “The artificial ingenuity of time allows no return to nature. . . . There is nothing to ‘understand’ about such a region except the consciousness that makes understanding impossible.” Cue Thus Spake Zarathustra, and turn it up really loud.
