An Entropic Spiral: From Pre-Columbian Art to the Post-Industrial Era

The aim of the research is to deepen Robert Smithson’s theoretical study in relation to the concept of an entropic landscape during the first years of Land Art and the consequential impact on today's contemporary art. This study explores and interrogates the reflections and successive considerations on landscape and entropy that the artist developed during the construction of Spiral Jetty, his most important work. The main topic is the critique and analysis of landscape through art. These experiences inaugurated a new and avant-garde approach: the aesthetics of the entropic, which leads to a form of socio-political debate that will be analyzed through artistic expression. The idea of an art that builds a new vision reflects the collective action toward reality, simultaneously expressing the landscape condition and the current entropic, instead of resolving it in the form of an object belonging to an armored dimension.