Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (814 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081663159X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Collection of Essays on Site-specific and Installation Art Lance M. Foster I have been an artist all my life, and always worked at the scale of smaller, portable art: drawing, a painting, a small sculpture. However, I was always intrigued with the installation art I have seen at museums, even if I did not always understand itit "felt" intriguing-wow art you could actually walk into and interact with- and wanted to know moreultimately I wanted to try my hand at it someday. So I bought a couple different books on site-specific and installation art to learn more on how they were done, how artists conceptualized them and came up with their ideasthis was one of those books. So this is really j. Thinking person's collection of essays Publisher Comments:From Ferdinand Chevel's Palais Ideal (1879-1905) and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers (1921-195Thinking person's collection of essays Erika Suderburg Publisher Comments:From Ferdinand Chevel's Palais Ideal (1879-1905) and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers (1921-1954) to Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch (1974) and Richard Serra's Tilted Arc (1981), installation art has continually crossed boundaries, encompassing sculpture, architecture, performance, and visual art. Although unique in its power to transform both the site in which a work is constructed and the viewer's experience of being in a place, installation art has not received the critical attention accorded other art forms.In Space, Site, Intervention, some of today's most prominent art critics, curators, and artists vi. ) to Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch (197Thinking person's collection of essays Erika Suderburg Publisher Comments:From Ferdinand Chevel's Palais Ideal (1879-1905) and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers (1921-1954) to Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch (1974) and Richard Serra's Tilted Arc (1981), installation art has continually crossed boundaries, encompassing sculpture, architecture, performance, and visual art. Although unique in its power to transform both the site in which a work is constructed and the viewer's experience of being in a place, installation art has not received the critical attention accorded other art forms.In Space, Site, Intervention, some of today's most prominent art critics, curators, and artists vi. ) and Richard Serra's Tilted Arc (1981), installation art has continually crossed boundaries, encompassing sculpture, architecture, performance, and visual art. Although unique in its power to transform both the site in which a work is constructed and the viewer's experience of being in a place, installation art has not received the critical attention accorded other art forms.In Space, Site, Intervention, some of today's most prominent art critics, curators, and artists vi. loved this book joesant A Must Read, I bought 2!
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