Cronofobia (Chronophobia)

In the 1960s art was extemporaneous; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called “not being centered in time”. This anxiety and restlessness about time, which Pamela Lee calls “chronophobia,” traversed movements, media, and genres, and was represented in works ranging from kinetic sculptures to Andy Warhol films. Chronophobia is the first critical attempt to define this obsession and analyze it in relation to art and technology.