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Books New. Signed Editions. Shop by Subject Art. Children's Books. Decorative Arts. Smithson support groups want to restore and maintain the jetty, rescuing it from entropy. The jetty is surely a quaint monument to simple engineering, and a solid bit of environmental process art with a hefty dash of cool public relations. But the impulse to rescue and preserve it defines it as fine art like nothing else. A further irony—with plans for nearby oil-drilling upsetting artists, eco-activists and community people, preserving the unnatural jetty form as an icon of Earth art has become a wedge against extracting this natural earth product from the ground.

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