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1.  Tom Holert «Deserts of the Political - Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Smithson and Michael Snow»collapse, politics and film. Desert People «Zabriski Point» by Michaelangelo Antonioni A second Italian director, Michelangelo Antonioni, was as stubborn as Pasolini in his attempt to turn deserts and other barren landscapes into constellations of cinematographic [more]  |
| 2. Tom Holert «Deserts of the Political - Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Smithson and Michael Snow» places, docks, warehouses, heaps of girders and scrap iron,«[36] which appear in modern post-war films, especially in Antonioni's, as the visualization of a new kind of environment, as «arbitrary spaces, superseded or emptied,» where the [more] |
| 3. Tom Holert «Deserts of the Political - Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Smithson and Michael Snow» to be a film image to Smithson. The wasted industrial landscape, cluttered with drainage pipes and scrap metal (not unlike Antonioni's «Il Deserto rosso»), surrounded its visitor like a film. «When I walked on the bridge, it was as though I [more] |
