One of the pioneering Environmental artists to rise to prominence used industrial construction equipment to manipulate vast quantities of earth and rock on isolated sites. His/her best known work is laid into Utah's Great Salt Lake. The name of the artist and work is ...

A Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35, 1979

B Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970

C Ana Mendieta, Flowers on Body, 1973

D Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick on Caterpillar Tracks, 1969

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26 August, 21:16

One of the pioneering Environmental artists to rise to prominence used industrial construction equipment to manipulate vast quantities of earth and rock on isolated sites. His/her best known work is laid into Utah's Great Salt Lake. The name of the artist and work is ...

A Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35, 1979

B Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970

C Ana Mendieta, Flowers on Body, 1973

D Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick on Caterpillar Tracks, 1969

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The name of the artist and work is B. Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970.

It represents an earthwork sculpture made of mud, salt crystals, and basalt rocks, and in the shape of a spiral. It is 460 meters long, and 4.6 meters wide, but also counterclockwise. It is located on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.