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NEW USES OF SPACE: SCALE IN SCULPTURE, INSTALLATION, LAND ART, SITE-SPECIFIC ART
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty (Great Salt Lake, 1969-70). 1 | 2
Walter De Maria
Lightening Field, 1977 | Earth
Room, 1977
An interior earth sculpture.
250 cubic yards of earth (197 cubic meters)
3,600 square feet of floor space (335 square meters)
22 inch depth of material (56 centimeters)
Total weight of sculpture: 280,000 lbs. (127,300 kilos)
The New York Earth Room, 1977, is the third Earth Room sculpture executed by the artist, the first being in Munich, Germany in 1968. The second was installed at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany in 1974. The first two works no longer exist.
The New York Earth Room has been on long-term view to the public since 1980.
This work was commissioned and is maintained by Dia Art Foundation.
Richard Serra
One-Ton Prop, Lead, 1969 | Tilted
Arc, NYC, 1981 | Torqued Spirals Exhibition. Installation. | Switch,
1999
Yayoi Kusama
1963 installation at New York’s
Castellane Gallery | Fireflies
(Robert Miller Gallery, 2002)
