Practice question · Select all that apply
Which follow from Serra's large steel works being available only by walking through them?
Hints
- Three follow from the work being traversed; one proposes exactly the view the work refuses.
- An elevated view turns a passage into a diagram.
Show the answer
- A. The work exists in time as well as space
- B. No single viewpoint contains the work
- D. Photographs report the shape and not the experience
Why
The fourth gives you the plan and destroys the content. Seen from above, a Serra becomes a diagram of curves; walked through, it is a sequence of enclosures and releases over a minute or two, which is the work, and is exactly what an aerial photograph cannot carry.
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