"The copious literature on the work of artist Robert Smithson has made very little of the many parallels between the inventor of earthworks and the nineteenthcentury author of pataphysics, despite the established fact that the artist read and made notes from Alfred Jarryâs Dr. Faustroll (1898) while working on the Spiral Jetty in 1970, which undoubtedly influenced the subsequent Broken Circle &/ Spiral Hill (1971, Emmen). Given the insightful literature reassessing Jarryâs influence on twentieth-century artists including Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and Rodney Graham, a consideration of Smithsonâs spiral earthworks in connection with Jarry is long overdue. In contrast to prevailing art research practices today, Smithsonâs work is much more aligned with the pataphysical pursuit of âimaginary solutionsâ that examine âthe laws governing exceptionsâ and describe âa universe which can be â and perhaps should be â envisaged in place of the traditional oneâ."
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Edward A. Shanken (2013). "Broken Circle &/ Spiral Hill: Smithsonâs Spirals, Pataphysics, Syzygy, and Survival."
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