Word: smithson
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...very existence hinges on the privileged status of art itself, a status drilled into the world audience by decades of institutional art-worship. No matter how nugatory an event or object seems, it is nevertheless special, being art. And within this protective box, the conceptual artist-as Sculptor Robert Smithson acerbically put it-disports himself "like a B.F. Skinner rat doing his 'tough' little tricks...