Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities

Rory O'Dea (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

170 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032272801 (ISBN)

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This book explores the ways Robert Smithson’s art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge.

In this way, his art is conceived as a true fiction that eradicates a false reality. By tracing the web of correspondences between Smithson and science fictional, speculative and mystical modes of thought, Rory O’Dea explores the aesthetic encounters engendered by his art as a means to warp the contours of reality and loosen the boundaries of being human. Given the current and impending catastrophes of the Anthropocene, which represents the ever-expanding planetary shadow cast by humanism, the possibility of being other-than-human posited by Smithson’s art is a matter of urgent concern.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, American studies and environmental humanities.

Rory O’Dea is Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Design at Parsons School of Design.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Art for the Earth

1. The Non-Objective World

2. True Fictions and Dark Mediations

3. Speculative Geology

Conclusion: Out of the Spiral

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Art History
Zusatzinfo	20 Halftones, color; 44 Halftones, black and white; 20 Illustrations, color; 44 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-13	9781032272801 / 9781032272801
Zustand	Neuware