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The Realationship between New Wave SF’s Landscape and Robert Smithson’s film Spiral Jetty

  • Journal of History of Modern Art
  • 2018, (44), pp.119-145
  • DOI : 10.17057/kahoma.2018..44.005
  • Publisher : 현대미술사학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Art > Arts in general > Art History
  • Received : November 2, 2018
  • Accepted : November 26, 2018
  • Published : December 31, 2018

Jaeeun Lee 1

1가천대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, I examine the meaning of film Spiral Jetty in 1970 concerning Sci-Fi New Wave which is a movement in science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s. Robert Smithson’s earthwork Spiral Jetty , as well is known, is considered to be most important artwork in land art history. Concurrently with the earthwork he made a film which shows its construction and after completion. This film seems like a record of the earthwork. However, it creates a space of illusion which is made by jump cut, close-up,filter and so on, which filmmakers use to consist of a theme of film. The film Spiral Jetty itself is crammed with bits from science fiction novels. Thus, this film gives us the opportunity to think about his entropic landscape based on the Ballard’s ‘inner space’. By exploring from the perspective, this essay can sum up the following facts. Firstly, the entropic landscape of the film Spiral Jetty consists in the embodiment of Smithson or human's ‘inner space’ in science-technology’s era. Secondly, this film shows his earthwork, Spiral Jetty is the system of megalith that possesses the memories of mankind which time has piled up.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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