Sludge works

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A sludge works was a structural facility in brooks and rivers with which one tried to separate the gold grains contained by sludging (washing) .

Quotation from the Oeconomic Encyclopedia Volume 119 by Johann Georg Krünitz, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Friedrich Jakob Floerke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth: In Saxony, no distinction is made between washing and sludge works, but the latter is given arbitrary names.

Mudwork in Art

The land art artist Richard Long creates with his hands and feet mud works by writing to walls with diluted mud or clay brushing, circles, rings and lines. The 1966 exhibition from one to another at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston , Houston , Texas encompassed three circular shapes made from wiped handprints . Another exhibition with prints of his right hand was shown at the Anthony D'Offay Gallery in 1988, entitled Slow hand mud Spiral .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JG Krünitz: Economic-Technological Encyclopedia. Volume 145, Pauli, 1827, limited preview in the Google book search

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  • Adelung, Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect, Volume 3. Leipzig 1798, pp. 1503–1504.
  • Pierer 1857: sludge works.
  • Tiberghien, Land Art (1995), p. 218.
  • EC Baker: Artworks on the Land. In: Sonfist, Alan (Ed.): Art in the Land. A critical Anthology of Environmental Art. , New York 1983, pp. 73-84, cited above. P. 74. ("As Smithson did with his Nonsites, Long sometimes brings his sculptures indoors to galleries or museums.")
  • J. Beardsley: Earthworks and Beyond. Contemporary in the Landscape. New York, 1984, cit. P. 42.

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