Smithson & Serra: Beyond Modernism [3]

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Robert Smithson and Richard Serra, are artists who have shared a similar interest for breaking sculptural conventions. This program explains the works of these two artists, highlighting specific works and comparing their intentions. Richard Serra has been well known for his large steel plate semi-site specific works, which had generated mixed feelings among viewers in the 1980s. Robert Smithson is another large-scale artist who manipulates body of land and water to produce simplistic formations integrated into their natural surroundings.