Trailer Partially Covered with Asphalt

Art © Estate of Robert Smithson / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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1970

Robert Smithson
American, 1938-1973

Trailer Partially Covered with Asphalt was originally conceived as an alternative to Juggernaut-Boston Project (1970), a piece designed by Robert Smithson that was never realized three-dimensionally. As noted by Robert Hobbs, this composition, like Juggernaut, illustrates Smithson’s use of entropic figures in his designs. The trailer represents, in the words of Smithson, “monumental inaction” and the idea that systems of order will always fall into disorder.

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Artist: Robert Smithson
Title: Trailer Partially Covered with Asphalt
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1970
Medium: Graphite and black fiber-tipped pen on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 48.3 × 61 cm (19 1/16 × 24 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Virginia Dwan
Reference Number: 1988.511

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