Spiral Jetty Essays

  • Environmental Problems In Ecological Modernization

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    appreciated. For example, the piece Broken Circle Spiral Hill [see Figure 2.4] by Robert Smithson was built to follow a certain path connecting the Hill to the Circle. From the top of the Hill one could take the path in which to view the Circle and vice versa, exploring the picturesque quality of the time of the viewer. The piece appears completely different depending on the season in which it is viewed. Finally, looking at the erosion of the Spiral Hill, one is aware of the entropic geologic time

  • Environmental Art

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    Hiezer.” Art we Love. Retrieved 4/21/2011. http://artwelove.com/artist/-id/e514dd37 “Walter De Maria: The Lightning Field.” Dia Art Foundation. 1995-2011. Retrieved 4/23/2011. http://www.diacenter.org/sites/page/56/1375 “Robert Smithson: The Spiral Jetty.” Dia Art Foundation. 1995-2011. Retrieved 4/23/2011. http://www.diaart.org/sites/page/59/1380 “Biography.” RobertSmithson.org. 2004. Retrieved 4/24/2011. http://robertsmithson.org/biography.php “What is Environmental Art?” Greenmuseum.org. 2010

  • Robert Smithson & Richard Serra

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    than it was when it graced the federal plaza because its ghost haunts the NEA, conservative politicians, citizens and artists alike. Finally, it could be deducted that the very idea - the deliberations and intentions behind both Tilted Arc and Spiral Jetty are what is still alive despite physical incarnations or lack thereof. In true Postmodernist form, that is just as relevant, if not more than the actual construction of the artwork.

  • Landscape And Architecture: The Principles Of Landform Construction

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    multi-use stadia being constructed today.” These principles include the inhabitation of the landscape, which much of contemporary architecture has incorporated into its design. However unlike land art’s wild terrains, such as the salt lake of Spiral Jetty or the vast desert of Double Negative, contemporary architecture has incorporated principles of land art into densely populated urban typology, of which the following two projects serve as significant examples. 3.3.1 CASE STUDY 1: THE HIGHLINE

  • The Innocent Eye Test Tansey Analysis

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    Ingeborg Romano Professor L. Musgrave Art Gone Bad: Ethics & Politics September 15 2016 The Innocent Eye Test by Mark Tansey "The Innocent Eye Test" is an oil on canvas painting created in 1981 by Mark Tansey. The work is currently in Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. The author of this piece of art is a Californian born in 1949. Mark Tansey was immersed in the world of art since an early age. The main influences came from his family that had a history of artists belonging to it. In the 1970s, his

  • Spiral Jetty: A Brief Narrative Analysis

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    An artwork that transformed an outdoor location is the Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson which was made in 1970, and is located in Great Salt Lake. The spiral was created in water by salt crystals and rocks that were gathered from the surrounding areas. The Gates as well as the Spiral Jetty had eye-opening impacts on their outdoor locations. Both the Spiral Jetty and The Gates have transformed their respective outdoor locations. The Gates in Central Park were saffron colored structures with loose

  • Robert Smithson

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    Robert Smithson Robert Smithson is best known as a pioneer of the Earthworks movement. However his involvement in the development of Earthworks is only one of his many contributions to postwar American art. His most popular concepts he innovated was a “site,” which is a place in the world where art is inseparable from its context. In addition to large-scale land interventions, Smithson’s artistic practice also includes photography, painting, film, and language. Robert Smithson was born in Passaic

  • Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty: Conceptualism, And Land Art

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    cannot be displayed elsewhere or that the piece will have its meaning significantly altered if moved. Perhaps the most famous version of this is Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, a fifteen hundred foot long and fifteen foot wide spiraling pathway constructed over a period of months that juts into the Great Salt Lake. To even reach Spiral Jetty, one must travel a long way along the shore of Lake, as it is far away from any main road or town. Furthermore, Smithson did not just choose a random, remote location

  • The Role Of Comic Relief In Shakespeare's Macbeth

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    when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.” (George Orwell, Columbia Dictionary of Quotations) In a tragedy the main character rises to greatness, then continues to fall down a shame spiral, which leads to his

  • Golden Ratio

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    value is called “phi”. The Golden Ratio is also known as the golden rectangle. The Golden Rectangle has the property that when a square is removed a smaller rectangle of the same shape remains, a smaller square can be removed and so on, resulting in a spiral pattern. The Golden Rectangle is a unique and important shape in mathematics. The Golden Rectangle appears in nature, music, and is often used in art and architecture. Some thing special about the golden rectangle is that the length to the width equals

  • Joan of Arc

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    church. The people became upset with the clergy because they were unaware of or involved in their society. So in order to expel the church leaders and those that stood in their way, rumors of heresy and accusations were thrown. The church began to spiral into much upheaval. Commoners were accusing priests and clergy of heresy and thus weakening the church and their message. So when Joan was born into a town that was associated with a large group of witches and heretics, rumors began to spread about

  • Among School Children

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    awareness of universal concepts and the relation this plays upon the individual. Yeats believed that throughout an individuals life there were certain icons and memories which remained constant, turning in what he classified as a gyre, an ever increasing spiral of life veering towards a state of anarchy. This form of consciousness is classified within Western cosmologies as knowledge or wisdom. If one chooses to neglect this knowledge, one has not been enlightened and therefor remains much like the school

  • Farm Experience

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    mint farming area. All the atmosphere was absolutely filled with mint aroma. What to say after that! I watched it for some while. This was a pleasant feeling. Then I moved forward. While crossing through road I met a huge banyan tree that had sent spiral roots to earth as if its branches wanted to be self-dependent. The tree had no objections with it because it was making it more stable for long term. We have a planning commission for work strategies but what about them! Hands off nature! I returned

  • Cartoons: Land Of Imagination

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    suddenly. 3. Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. 4. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken. 5. All principles of gravity are negated by fear. 6. As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once. 7. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances;

  • The Real Tragedy of Shakespeare's Macbeth

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    Tragedy of  Macbeth In a tragedy the main character rises to greatness, then continues to fall down a shame spiral which leads to their down fall. An example of a tragedy is Macbeth. Macbeth is driven up the hill of greatness a rise, then his untamed ambition leads him to death. The process of a tragedy is slow to let the audience become comfortable with the power and happiness of the main character. Then all of the sudden signs appear that the end is coming and the main character heads toward

  • Coelomate And Acoelomate

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    While an example of a coelomate would be a rotifer. The differences between protostome and deuterostome development are the characteristics in their cleavage, their coelom formation, and the fate of their blastopore. Many protostomes undergo spiral cleavage. In spiral cleavage, planes of cell division occur diagonal to the vertical axis of the embryo. The cleavage also determinates, which casts the developmental fate of each embryonic cell very early. In deuterostomes, they undergo radial cleavage, where

  • Poor Communications and Conflict

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    message. Each will blame the other for failing to communicate properly and conflict may result. E-mail flame wars are a high tech twist on whispering campaigns. And like the system of claims & loyalties in a feudal states the smallest e-mail spat can spiral out of control with careless use of the C.C. and B.C.C functions. Drucker (1977)says that there are four fundamentals of communication: communication is perception of the recipient not the utterance of the instigator communication is expectation

  • The Physics of CDs and DVDs

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    which reads the spiral data, to jump off track, allowing the CD to skip around and to distort whatever you are watching or listening to. According to How Things Work, A CD is a fairly simple piece of plastic, about four one-hundredths (4/100) of an inch (1.2 mm) thick. Most of a CD consists of an injection-molded piece of clear polycarbonate plastic. During manufacturing, this plastic is impressed with microscopic bumps arranged as a single, continuous, extremely long spiral track of data. Once

  • A Short Overview Of Hurricanes

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    with moisture. The seawater that is warmed by the heat from the sun evaporates to form vast storm clouds. As the warm air rises, the cooler air replaces it thus creating a wind. The rotation of the earth bends the wind inward causing it to rotate and spiral upward with a great amount of force. Around the Equator, the spin is the fastest. There, it can be faster than six hundred miles per hour. You cannot see a hurricane all at once, unless you’re looking at it from above or are looking at a picture

  • Lord Of The Flies

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    speared. However, a reader familiar with the Bible may recall that Christ was stabbed in the side with a spear before his crucifixion. A Link to the Outside World In the novel, Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, a large spiral shaped sea shell, known as a conch shell, became crucial for society developed by the surviving boys. Similarly, in Greek mythology Triton, the son of Neptune, uses the conch shell to stir or calm the seas. Here, Ralph, following the instructions