Artists translated Land Art entropy concepts into urban building interventions

Evidence

16 Matta-Clarke, who met Smithson when the artist was in residence at Cornell University and assisted on one of his projects, was perhaps Smithson’s greatest disciple, having absorbed the older artist’s lengthy explications of entropy. By 1972, Matta-Clarke was sculpting abandoned buildings in the South Bronx, a project that recalls Danny Lyons’s photographs while urbanizing Smithson’s earth works. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 2035

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the conceptual lineage from Smithson’s earth works to South Bronx building cuts — relevant to the reader’s turf-wars/gentrification argument as art ideas migrating into the urban fabric.