07 January 2010

Robert Smithson's Museum of the Void

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Robert Smithson's (1969) Museum of the Void

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Also at the Robert Smithson website, from Selected Writings by Robert Smithson, the following :
Some Void Thoughts On Museums

... Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. Hallways lead the viewer to things once called 'pictures' and 'statues.' Anachronisms hang and protrude from every angle. Themes without meaning press on the eye. Multifarious nothings permute into false windows (frames) that open up into a variety of blanks. Stale images cancel one's perception and deviate one's motivation. Blind and senseless, one continues ...
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