TY - BOOK

T1 - Installation Art

T2 - Between Image and Stage

AU - Petersen, Anne Ring

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Despite its large and growing popularity – to say nothing ofits near-ubiquity in the world’s art scenes and internationalexhibitions of contemporary art –installation art remains a formwhose artistic vocabulary and conceptual basis have rarely beensubjected to thorough critical examination.In Installation Art: Between Image and Stage, Anne RingPetersen aims to change that. She begins by exploring howinstallation art developed into an interdisciplinary genre inthe 1960s, and how its intertwining of the visual and theperformative has acted as a catalyst for the generation ofnew artistic phenomena. It investigates how it became one oftoday’s most widely used art forms, increasingly expanding into consumer, popular and urban cultures, where installation’s often spectacular appearance ensures that it meets contemporarydemands for sense-provoking and immersive culturalexperiences. The main trajectory of the book is directed by a movementaimed at addressing a series of basic questions that get at theheart of what installation art is and how it is defined: How doesinstallation structure time, space and representation? Howdoes it address and engage its viewers? And how does it drawin the surrounding world to become part of the work? Featuring the work of such well-known artists as Bruce Nauman, Pipilotti Rist, Ilya Kabakov and many others, this book breaks crucial newground in understanding the conceptual underpinnings of thismultifarious art form.

AB - Despite its large and growing popularity – to say nothing ofits near-ubiquity in the world’s art scenes and internationalexhibitions of contemporary art –installation art remains a formwhose artistic vocabulary and conceptual basis have rarely beensubjected to thorough critical examination.In Installation Art: Between Image and Stage, Anne RingPetersen aims to change that. She begins by exploring howinstallation art developed into an interdisciplinary genre inthe 1960s, and how its intertwining of the visual and theperformative has acted as a catalyst for the generation ofnew artistic phenomena. It investigates how it became one oftoday’s most widely used art forms, increasingly expanding into consumer, popular and urban cultures, where installation’s often spectacular appearance ensures that it meets contemporarydemands for sense-provoking and immersive culturalexperiences. The main trajectory of the book is directed by a movementaimed at addressing a series of basic questions that get at theheart of what installation art is and how it is defined: How doesinstallation structure time, space and representation? Howdoes it address and engage its viewers? And how does it drawin the surrounding world to become part of the work? Featuring the work of such well-known artists as Bruce Nauman, Pipilotti Rist, Ilya Kabakov and many others, this book breaks crucial newground in understanding the conceptual underpinnings of thismultifarious art form.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Installationskunst

KW - performancekunst

KW - performanceteater

KW - mediekunst

KW - installation art

KW - performance art

KW - performanceteater

KW - media art

KW - consumer culture

M3 - Book

SN - 9788763542579

BT - Installation Art

PB - Museum Tusculanum

CY - Copenhagen

ER -