Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-30478-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 330 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Art History

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Dea, Rory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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