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Description     In 1972, artist Robert Smithson wrote the following in the essay, Cultural Confinement: “A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world

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In 1972, artist Robert Smithson wrote the following in the essay, Cultural Confinement:

“A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a

portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.”

Choose one work from the list and after providing a brief description of the selected

project, explain how it reflects Smithson’s comments. Elaborate on how the selected

work relates to customary exhibition practices and conventions of displays, and how it

reinforces or defies them.

Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room, 1977

Agnes Denes, Wheatfield: A Confrontation, 1982

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Placebo), 1991

Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, 1992

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free), 1992

Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Clouds, 2002

Thomas Hirschhorn, The Gramsci Monument, 2013