Robert Smithson (1966) "It was a dark night and there was no light, or shoulder markers, lines, railings, or anything at all except the dark pavement moving through the landscape of the flat, rimmed by hills in the distance, but punctuated by stacks, towers, fumes, and colored lights. This drive was a revealing experience. The road and much of the landscape was artificial, and yet it couldn't be called a work of art. On the other hand, it did something for me. that art had never done. At first, I didn't know what it was, but it's effect was to liberate me from many of the views I had had about art. It seemed that there had been a reality there that had not had any expression in art. The experience on the road was something mapped out but not socially recognized. I thought to myself, it ought to be clear that's the end of art. "