Fountain Monument
Robert Smithson – Monuments of Passaic
The American sculpter and landscape artist Robert Smithson has a website containing drawings, films, photographs and writings. Much of his art plays with maps and scrawls on both the literal and metaphorical landscape. In the late 1960s he fell in with a bunch of artisits who were playing with the ideas of monuments, messing with the notions of time, marking, remembrance and location that define monuments.
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future…They are not built for the ages, but rather against the ages. They are involved in a systematic reduction of time down to fractions of seconds, rather than in representing the long spaces of centuries. Both past and future are placed into an objective present. This kind of time has little or no space; it is stationary and without movement, it is going nowhere, it is anti-Newtonian, as well as being instant, and is against the wheels of the time-clock.
— Robert Smithson, Entropy and the New Monuments
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