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Article: Spiral Jetty on dry land.(Front Page)(Robert Smithson's earth sculpture in Utah's Great Salt Lake)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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In recent months Robert Smithson's monumental earthwork Spiral Jetty, built in 1970 in a shallow bay of roseate water in the northeast section of Utah's Great Salt Lake, has become landlocked. After being submerged since 1974 by the lake's rising water table, the jetty has been intermittently exposed in recent years. Now, in the fifth year of a regional drought, the water at Rozel Point has receded beyond the periphery of the 1,500-foot-long whorl.
When Spiral Jetty was constructed, black basalt boulders were removed from the shoreline hillside of the 10-acre site to make the 15-foot-wide rocky path. The work's reappearance reveals that the long immersion has ...