Smithson mocked Park Place Group’s fourth-dimensional ambitions as laughable

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Thus, he concluded, “if we apply this ‘ha-ha-crystal’ concept to the monumental models being produced by some of the artists in the Park Place Group, we might begin to understand the fourth-dimensional nature of their work.” Their ambitions were laughable. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1034

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• CANDY: Smithson’s claim that ‘the chuckle is a triangle’ and ‘a guffaw is asymmetric’ is a wonderfully tweetable absurdist art-theory moment.