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Armchair adventures.(Art)
What if Homer had decided to be post-Homeric: smiles about heroes? Been there. Linear B? Done that. The new thing: Homer sings his poems into an amphora--instead of writing them down--and deposits the vase in the Hellespont. He then composes a "text" about his conceptual, subversive act.
In 1970, the earth artist Robert Smithson--no Homer, granted--promoted a similar stunt. He gave orders in Utah for the boys to get to work on his Spiral Jetty. Two dump trucks, a tractor, and a front-end loader belched diesel fumes into the air as the cameras rolled. Plans were consulted, maps drawn up, "texts" written, laborers labored. Six-thousand-plus rock-tons later, coiling ...
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