178 Pages
20 Color & 44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
178 Pages
20 Color & 44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
178 Pages
20 Color & 44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Rory O’Dea is Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Design at Parsons School of Design.
