Guy Debord
- French marxist theorist
-writer and filmmaker
-founder of a letterist faction
-founding member of the situationist international
-He belives in the everyday becoming art
-He belives that we follow an unthinking path and that we should stop following it by walking new routes (routes you dont usualy take,routes that you dont need to take and routes that are out of your way)
Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson was Anti-Gallery, he apposed the gallery/instituation system. This is shown in the work Spiral Jetty.
Spiral Jetty:
It was not made in a gallery and is part of the landscape so cannot be placed in a gallery situation so it is apart from the art market. It cannot be bought and sold in the same way that the large majority of art is because it cannot be moved. It can also be walked on and experienced in a different way to something in a gallery.
Carl Andre
-American minimalist artist
-Interaction with sculpture
-Politicaly questioning the role of the gallery/instution
-Looked at how space is used
Michael Heizer
-American artist with a similar style as Robert Smithson
-Digging/altering the landscape as artistic practise
-Produced work in the desert
-Famous for Double Negative, a 1500ft trench cut into the side of a mesa in the Nevada desert
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