Helicography
"Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson’s iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to imag...
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| author | Dworkin, Craig |
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| description | "Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson’s iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to imagine the stone helix of his structure at various orders of magnitude, from microscopic molecules to entire galaxies.
Taking up this invitation with an unrelenting and literal enthusiasm, Helicography pursues the implications of such transformations all the way to the limits of logic. If other spirals, from the natural to the man-made, were expanded or condensed to the size of Spiral Jetty, what are the consequences of their physical metamorphoses? What other equivalences follow in turn, and where do their surprising historical, cultural, and mechanical connections lead? This book considers a number of forms in order to find out: the fluid vortices of whirlpools, hurricanes, and galaxies; the delicate shells of snails and the threatening pose of rattlesnakes; prehistoric ferns and the turns of the inner ear; the monstrous jaws of ancient sharks; a baroque finial scroll on a bass viol; a 19th-century watch spring; phonograph discs and spooled film; the largest open-pit mine on the planet.
The result is a narrative laboratory for the “science of imaginary solutions” proposed by Alfred Jarry (whose King Ubu also plays a central role in the story told here), a work of fictocriticism blurring form and content, and the story of a single instant in time lost in the deserts of the intermountain west." |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-713772025-08-13T14:12:34Z Helicography Dworkin, Craig Alfred Jarry, conceptual art, land art, Robert Smithson, pataphysics, scale, Spiral Jetty thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCF Poetry by individual poets thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6C Styles (C)::6CK Conceptualism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCF Poetry by individual poets thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6C Styles (C)::6CK Conceptualism "Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson’s iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to imagine the stone helix of his structure at various orders of magnitude, from microscopic molecules to entire galaxies. Taking up this invitation with an unrelenting and literal enthusiasm, Helicography pursues the implications of such transformations all the way to the limits of logic. If other spirals, from the natural to the man-made, were expanded or condensed to the size of Spiral Jetty, what are the consequences of their physical metamorphoses? What other equivalences follow in turn, and where do their surprising historical, cultural, and mechanical connections lead? This book considers a number of forms in order to find out: the fluid vortices of whirlpools, hurricanes, and galaxies; the delicate shells of snails and the threatening pose of rattlesnakes; prehistoric ferns and the turns of the inner ear; the monstrous jaws of ancient sharks; a baroque finial scroll on a bass viol; a 19th-century watch spring; phonograph discs and spooled film; the largest open-pit mine on the planet. The result is a narrative laboratory for the “science of imaginary solutions” proposed by Alfred Jarry (whose King Ubu also plays a central role in the story told here), a work of fictocriticism blurring form and content, and the story of a single instant in time lost in the deserts of the intermountain west." 2021-07-20T02:00:10Z 2021-07-20T02:00:10Z 2021-07-19T09:24:15Z 2021 book OCN: 1266291935 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50124 9781953035646 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71377 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50124/1/0352.1.00.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50124/1/0352.1.00.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50124/1/0352.1.00.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50124/1/0352.1.00.pdf punctum books Dead Letter Office 10.53288/0352.1.00 10.53288/0352.1.00 12970da4-0116-4486-b8be-fc9756703ab1 University of Utah 2b40dc96-2ca9-47a2-9413-62f1f850842c 9781953035646 ScholarLed Dead Letter Office 224 Brooklyn, NY open access |
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