Żwir w miejsce podmiotu. O wczesnych pracach Robera Smithsona
Gravel in Place of the Subject. On Robert Smithson's Early Works

Summary/Abstract: The author explores the emergence of a new type of subject in the postwar minimalist art: he notes that her/his response to the work of art is principally characterised by what Polit calls corporeality, which he attributes, following Rosalind Krauss, to the work's opaqueness, mirror-like surface and considerable scale. The corporeal aspect of the work's reception constitutes one of the inalienable qualities of minimalist art. Also it induces in the spectator a sense of alienation. But, as Polit argues in his discussion of Robert Smithson's early works, this alienation effect does not necessarily have to be characterised in negative terms as it may give us access to a range of meanings excluded by a traditional approach to art.

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