![]() ![]() I'm kind of awestruck that someone was able to do this, and someone thought of doing this, and that they carried it out. I think it's really cool to see it integrated with its surroundings instead of just being put on a wall. "It's just a different medium, a different, has a different feel to it. ![]() "I feel like this is still art, for sure," Adams said. After hearing about it in a campus humanities class, he decided to drive the six-hour round-trip from Provo just to see the unusual outdoor art for himself. "It's a lot bigger than I was expecting," said BYU student Kyle Adams. ![]() "It is the second- or third-most illustrated work of art ever on the planet, in art books," she said. The giant spiral, known as the Spiral Jetty, draws art lovers deep into its center thousands from all over the world have taken the unique stroll across an artwork. Loe said a survey of recently published books on modern art found more pictures of the Spiral Jetty than almost any other painting or sculpture. The Spiral Jetty is considered Smithson's masterwork, the crown jewel of environmental art. His creations - massive sculptures integrated with their outdoor environment and typically using natural materials in the landscape - proved to be enormously influential in the art world. "Smithson is one of these artists who has us now thinking differently about what it means to be an artist and what are the materials that we use." "It was a radically new way of thinking about art," Loe said of Smithson's artistic vision. The sculptor created the jetty in 1970 he died in a plane crash in 1973 while surveying a site for another earthwork he was planning in Texas. It's getting renewed attention thanks to Loe's new encyclopedia, which explores the world-famous sculpture primarily through the writings of Smithson himself. Located in an exceptionally remote and spookily uninhabited area at the north end of the Great Salt Lake, the Spiral Jetty is one of Utah's most striking and unusual sights. "It's as if the land itself is the big, huge canvas, the big huge piece of paper," she said, "and this shape has been created on that." "Literally this is a drawing in the landscape," Loe said as she hiked along a 1,500-foot spiral of pepper-black boulders on a white bed of dried-up salt. On a recent winter morning, she brought along her newly published opus, a very large book called "The Spiral Jetty Encyclopedia." It attempts to give the enormous swirl of rock its proper place in art history and in the eerie landscape where sculptor Robert Smithson created it nearly a half-century ago. "This earthwork that looks like it's literally growing up out of the Earth," is how art historian Hikmet Sidney Loe describes it. ROZEL POINT, Box Elder County - If you ever take the long journey to visit what is arguably Utah's most famous artwork, there are a few things it might be useful to take along for the ride:Ī couple of city dwellers who have never seen it before.Ī college student who heard about it in his humanities class.Īnd a camera-equipped drone to fly overhead.Įach will give the visitor a different perspective on the mammoth land sculpture called the Spiral Jetty. Reading or replaying the story in itsĪrchived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Only for your personal, non-commercial use. ![]()
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