{"product_id":"robert-smithson-land-art-and-speculative-realities-9781032304786","title":"Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rory O'Dea\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Environmental \u0026amp; Land Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, American studies and environmental humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46930955501719,"sku":"9781032304786","price":3818.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781032304786.webp?v=1771610079","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/robert-smithson-land-art-and-speculative-realities-9781032304786","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}