Examples of using Smithson in English and their translations into German
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Political
Pierre Bonnard and Robert Smithson.
ESSEX, MILTON, SMITHSON AND WHITEWOOD, T.
Smithson reads aloud from scientific, cartographic, and literary works.
The birdman of Smithson High, Julian Morneau.
Snow produces a camera wilderness,which must have been suspect and at thesame time welcome to Smithson.
People also translate
Too bad Smithson High does not have a parachute club.
The world is curved like all the spirals to infinity that Smithson is fond of C. f.«Spiral Jetty».
Do you remember when I was 9, and me and Jimmy Smithson were playing frisbee in the bar, and I broke Dad's favorite beer sign? The neon one with the clock?
In this way, various discursive fields are contrasted and connected in a collage-like fashion,becoming that«pile of language,» which, for Smithson, attests to the crude materiality of the discursive.
In«A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Art,» a 1968 essay, Smithson, who could never do without a selected motto or quotation, introduced a section on the term«desert» with two short quotes.
The project reflects upon the future of social housing by presenting a fragment of the social housing estate, Robin Hood Gardens,which was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson in East London and completed in 1972.
Summed up in Stephen Bates' words:" Our instinctscould be summed up by the words of Peter Smithson:‘Things need to be ordinary and heroic at the same time.' We were looking for an ordinariness whose understated lyricism is full of potential.
Adrian Piper succinctly formulated the task of self-criticism that becomes apparent in this latter impulse(and which can be expanded to other functionarieswithin the art field) no less polemically than Smithson in a text written in 1983.
Why should we not append the battles of institutional critique practices to thislist(it is not a coincidence that Robert Smithson compares the"cells" of the museums with those of"asylums and prisons" in the passage quoted above…)?
While Banham uses Smithson's comment to thank the publishing house, editor,and translator, Smithson most likely intended to underline that any attempt to translate Banham's polemical and linguistically virtuous prose was doomed to fail.
Alongside American pop art, the Peter and Irene Ludwig Collection is characterized by key works by Hanne Darboven, Gerhard Richter,Robert Smithson, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Beuys, and Richard Hamilton.
While his legendary"Spiral Getty," a monumental spiral that Smithson produced for the Great Salt Lake in Utah, has been taken care of and preserved, his"Asphalt Rundown" from 1979, which he realized near Rome, was full of rubbish and overgrown with plants.
Interestingly, the surface of the mountains photographed by Walter Niedermayr- a mix of snow and slush in the winter, a layer of dirt, grass and rocks in the summer-re veals a surprising similarity to the contents of the sandbox in Smithson‘s parable.
Interestingly, the person who provided the funds to create the first Smithsonian collection,James Smithson, was a well-off scientist who never saw America, yet had arranged to donate the money for a U. S.
With her move to the Upper West Side in the 1960s, she made her way back into the current artistic circles and portrayed important artists, curators, and gallery owners, such as the poet and writer Frank O'Hara(1926-1966), Pop artist Andy Warhol(1928-1997),and land artist Robert Smithson 1938-1973.
Tom Holert«Deserts of the Political- Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Smithson and Michael Snow»«Zabriskie Point,» which presents an entire catalogue of ways to move and orient oneself in the desert,«Spiral Jetty», a film by Robert Smithson, is also structured like an anthology.
The DAM exhibition presents the first global survey of the Brutalist architecture of the'50s to the'70s, setting up a database of more than 1000 projects, broken down by geographic area, from Japan to Brazil, from the former Yugoslavia to Israel and to Great Britain,where Alison and Peter Smithson invented New Brutalism.
In the Symphonie fantastique, Hector Berlioz came to terms with his ownunhappy love for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson- and in the process conjured up the Higher Powers that the mind cannot control, in the form of dreams and delusions, unrestrained passion and opium fever.
Artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer applied the tenets of conceptual and minimalist art to the field in the 1960s; a full-blown genre soon flourished incorporating the first-generation environmental movement, feminism and the utopian perspectives of the 70s.
And you have to remember that it's a-centric, no focuses, nothing to grip on to, no certainty." 3 The loose fabric of imagination, supposition,analysis and memory by means of which Smithson resurrects the ruined hotel criss-crosses myriad levels of time, allowing the ruin to grow not just into the past, but also into the future.
A witness to the urbanist modernism of her time, she-like Gordon Matta-Clark,Robert Smithson, and many Land Art artists-reflected on a particular interest in how to engage the relationship between nature and culture, between an archaeology of the industrial age and the recourse to so-called archaic methods of construction, especially the"primitive hut.
Commenting on the specific approach that emerged in North Africa, Alison and Peter Smithson, as well as Georges Candilis and Shadrach Woods(all members of Team 10), wrote that:"this work had allowed a new architectural language to develop that had initially been created by the structures of inhabitation.
The institutional critique impulse originating with artists like Smithson not only ties into the desire for a positively productive"resocialization" of their own activities going beyond the boundaries of the art field, but also into the impulse to critically query one's own role as an artist and the forms of artistic self-confinement.
Through close examination of the work of artists andart historians such as Robert Smithson, Mary Kelly, and Rosalind Krauss, Systems We Have Lovedreconsiders the dominant late-twentieth-century view of the human subject as that figure was foretold, secured, and contested in major works of art, philosophy, and literary criticism of the time.
In his acclaimed installation at the 2006 Whitney Biennial, New York, where he used the discardedmaterials from the Whitney' s previous Robert Smithson retrospective, the sensitive aesthetic of the materials he used, combined with their historical reference to past purposes and identities, lent his installation-as well as the objects now shown at the Galerie Reinhard Hauff-a subtle poetic language which addresses as much our senses as our memory.