Robert Smithson: Time Crystals
Best known for his radical land art of the 1960s and early 1970s, Robert Smithson (1938-73) is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Time Crystals presents new research on the figure of the 'time-crystal' in Smithson's practice. Smithson coined the term “time-crystal”: a metaphor for time without end. He used the phrase as a visualization of endlessness. “The future,” he insisted, “crisscrosses the past as an unobtainable present. Time vanishes into perpetual sameness.”
Extensively researched, Time Crystals features rarely seen images from Robert Smithson’s archives alongside manuscripts by Smithson drawn from the Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt papers at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, which are reproduced in their complete form for the very first time.
Time Crystals features essays by scholars Amelia Barikin, Chris McAuliffe, and Stephen Melville.
Published on the occasion of the 2018 exhibition Robert Smithson: Time Crystals at UQ Art Museum, Queensland and Monash University Museum of Art, Australia
Editors
Amelia Barikin, Chris McAuliffe
Authors
Amelia Barikin, Chris McAuliffe, Stephen Melville, Robert Smithson
Specifications
Monash University Publishing, 2018
ISBN 978-1925523614
Paperback
112 pages
200 x 238 mm / 7 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches
English
Out of print
$30
Best known for his radical land art of the 1960s and early 1970s, Robert Smithson (1938-73) is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Time Crystals presents new research on the figure of the 'time-crystal' in Smithson's practice. Smithson coined the term “time-crystal”: a metaphor for time without end. He used the phrase as a visualization of endlessness. “The future,” he insisted, “crisscrosses the past as an unobtainable present. Time vanishes into perpetual sameness.”
Extensively researched, Time Crystals features rarely seen images from Robert Smithson’s archives alongside manuscripts by Smithson drawn from the Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt papers at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, which are reproduced in their complete form for the very first time.
Time Crystals features essays by scholars Amelia Barikin, Chris McAuliffe, and Stephen Melville.
Published on the occasion of the 2018 exhibition Robert Smithson: Time Crystals at UQ Art Museum, Queensland and Monash University Museum of Art, Australia
Editors
Amelia Barikin, Chris McAuliffe
Authors
Amelia Barikin, Chris McAuliffe, Stephen Melville, Robert Smithson
Specifications
Monash University Publishing, 2018
ISBN 978-1925523614
Paperback
112 pages
200 x 238 mm / 7 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches
English
Out of print
$30
Best known for his radical land art of the 1960s and early 1970s, Robert Smithson (1938-73) is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Time Crystals presents new research on the figure of the 'time-crystal' in Smithson's practice. Smithson coined the term “time-crystal”: a metaphor for time without end. He used the phrase as a visualization of endlessness. “The future,” he insisted, “crisscrosses the past as an unobtainable present. Time vanishes into perpetual sameness.”
Extensively researched, Time Crystals features rarely seen images from Robert Smithson’s archives alongside manuscripts by Smithson drawn from the Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt papers at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, which are reproduced in their complete form for the very first time.
Time Crystals features essays by scholars Amelia Barikin, Chris McAuliffe, and Stephen Melville.
Published on the occasion of the 2018 exhibition Robert Smithson: Time Crystals at UQ Art Museum, Queensland and Monash University Museum of Art, Australia
Editors
Amelia Barikin, Chris McAuliffe
Authors
Amelia Barikin, Chris McAuliffe, Stephen Melville, Robert Smithson
Specifications
Monash University Publishing, 2018
ISBN 978-1925523614
Paperback
112 pages
200 x 238 mm / 7 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches
English
Out of print
$30