Smithson and Serra: Beyond Modernism?
  
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DirectorGD Jayalakshmi
Presenter
Paul Wood
Participant
Richard Serra
Open University/BBC
Robert Smithson and Richard Serra both believed that sculpture should have a dialog with its environment. Two sculptures of Richard Serra are shown in an urban environment - Fulcrum in the Broadgate development at Liverpool Street in London and Tilted Arc in New York - the latter has since been destroyed. Spin Out, a tribute to Robert Smithson, is in a rural site at the Kroller-Muller Museum in Holland. Robert Smithson's work is represented by Broken Circle, Spiral Hill, which is in a disused quarry in north Holland. Smithson, who died in 1973, greatly influenced Serra's work.
