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Spiral Jetta.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Facing a midlife crisis of sorts, Hogan, a "recovering art historian," took a three-week trek in search of the American Sublime. Her destinations were "monuments of American land art," including Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty," a coil of earth and rock built in the Great Salt Lake in 1970. Short on personal information--we never learn much about Hogan, or about Todd, her eventual companion--this travel memoir nonetheless ...

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