Soft Cover 208 pages
Installation, once a term used to denote the preparation of works for viewing, has become a vigorous art form in itself, a combination of existential happening and planned structure. The need to inhabit the artistic environment, to allow and even require the spectator to be a part of the work, has become as much a political statement as an artistic decision. Duchamp and Christo, Schwitters and Nam June Paik are all part of this long tradition, traced here from the 19th century to the present in well-annotated illustrations and brief texts, grouped in four sections: site, media, museum, and architecture. A chronology dating from 1879 to 1993 and an extensive bibliography make this a useful source for further study. For larger art collections.
