Robert Smithson Partially Buried Woodshed. Partially buried woodshed, 1970, kent state university, kent state, was a piece smithson created on site during an invitational arts festival. Kent state university, kent, ohio, usa.
18 x 10 x 45 ft. It was created at kent state university in january 1970. Robert smithson, famous land artist behind the spiral jetty among other things, came to kent state university with the intent of creating another one of his flow pieces, where he would let a substance flow down a hill to create a naturally formed earthwork sculpture.
Mike Nelson's Triple Bluff Canyon (2004) Recalls Robert Smithson's Partially Buried Woodshed (1970), Which The Latter Artist Built At Kent State University Just Months Before The Kent State Shootings.
It is located southeast of the liquid crystal institute building on the kent state university main campus. He had originally wanted to do a ‘mud pour’ piece but it was too cold, so he worked hastily with students to develop an alternative work which addressed his interest in entropy and the accumulation of history. The work has since been demolished, and only concrete remains in the grass.
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His writings, drawings, sculpture, and, most famously, his earthworks have become touchstones for contemporary artists for their rigorous artistic and theoretical investigations and for the way in which they married concept and form. 18 x 10 x 45 ft. (5.5 x 3 x 13.7 m)
Robert Smithson, Plunge, 1966 Figure 8.
Partially buried woodshed, one of smithson's iconic works, was executed at kent state university in ohio in january 1970. It was too cold for the 'mud pour' work he had expected to perform, so this substitute was hastily developed by smithson and some of the students. 1970 kent university, kent, ohio as seen in 1982 one woodshed and twenty truckloads of earth 18’6” x 10’2” x 45’.
Robert Smithson’s Partially Buried Woodshed.
Partially buried woodshed [removed] description. Partially buried woodshed, 1970 figure 4. Standing in front of the pump house made me think of robert smithson's partially buried woodshed, built on the grounds of kent state university, ohio, in 1970, just months before the national guard killed students protesting the vietnam war.
Robert Smithson, Partially Buried Woodshed, 1970.
Spiral jetty, 1970,mud, salt crystals and rock. Partially buried woodshed, kent state. Upon looking at his sketchbook though, one will find the notion completely untrue.
