In January 1970 the American 'land' artist, Robert Smithson, created one of his celebrated earthworks, Partially Buried Woodshed, at Kent State University, Ohio. Four months later a demonstration against the Vietnam War took place at the university during which four students were killed by National Guardsmen. Since then Smithson's work has not only become an iconic work in the art historical canon but also a metaphor for the social and political climate of the time. Over three decades later Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, a group of students from Goldsmith's College, London, recreated Smithson's work, engaging, as they put it, with 'a mythological and political discourse which calls into question the historical narratives of the protest movement in 1970s America'. Rebecca Wilson reports. 
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