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Of the three most famous works by habitants-
'All the paysagistes to adopt the phrase coined by
Bernard Lassus (see Stephen Bann's article
`From Kineticism to Didacticism in
room in Contemporary French Art', Studio

International, March 1973, p. 107), Cheval's
Palais ideal at Hauterives, Rodia's Nuestro
the world' Pueblo (the Watts Towers) in Los Angeles, and
Clarence Schmidt's inhabited landscape on the
Clarence Schmidt's Ohayo Mountain near Woodstock, NY, the
latter deserves special attention for three main
inhabited landscape
reasons. First, it has far more spatial flexibility
Roger Cardinal than the other two; second, it reflects in an
extreme form the problem of integrating very
disparate and pointless parts (junk) into an
intentional whole (the work); third, it embodies
[All the photographs in this article are by a deeper synthesis as a fertile collaboration of
Beryl Sokoloff, New York.] Clarence Schmidt

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