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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert Smithson
Any
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Dialectic
Finished
Landscapes
Objects
Ongoing
Park
Parks
Rather
Repose
Static
Suggest
Than
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