Sculpture I / Site: Form in Natural and Urban Space
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Complete the account of site.

A work made for a particular place, and destroyed by removal from it, is ______-specific. Kwon separates the phenomenological, the social or institutional and the ______ senses of site. Smithson's term for gallery material standing in a determinate relation to a place is the ______. Serra argued that to remove Tilted Arc was to ______ it.

Word bank: site · discursive · non-site · destroy · place · context

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  1. The second blank is the sense in which a site can be a debate.
  2. The third blank names what makes land art exhibitable.
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A work made for a particular place, and destroyed by removal from it, is site-specific. Kwon separates the phenomenological, the social or institutional and the discursive senses of site. Smithson's term for gallery material standing in a determinate relation to a place is the non-site. Serra argued that to remove Tilted Arc was to destroy it.

Why

The non-site in the third blank solves a real problem. A work in a remote landscape cannot be brought into a gallery, and Smithson's answer was not documentation as a substitute but material and maps standing in a stated relation to the place, which is a proposition rather than a record.

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