Author: Jennifer A. Gonzalez
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262516020
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
An exploration of the visual culture of “race” through the work of five contemporary artists who came to prominence during the 1990s. Over the past two decades, artists James Luna, Fred Wilson, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Pepón Osorio, and Renée Green have had a profound impact on the meaning and practice of installation art in the United States. In Subject to Display, Jennifer González offers the first sustained analysis of their contribution, linking the history and legacy of race discourse to innovations in contemporary art. Race, writes González, is a social discourse that has a visual history. The collection and display of bodies, images, and artifacts in museums and elsewhere is a primary means by which a nation tells the story of its past and locates the cultures of its citizens in the present. All five of the American installation artists González considers have explored the practice of putting human subjects and their cultures on display by staging elaborate dioramas or site-specific interventions in galleries and museums; in doing so, they have created powerful social commentary of the politics of space and the power of display in settings that mimic the very spaces they critique. These artists' installations have not only contributed to the transformation of contemporary art and museum culture, but also linked Latino, African American, and Native American subjects to the broader spectrum of historical colonialism, race dominance, and visual culture. From Luna's museum installation of his own body and belongings as “artifacts” and Wilson's provocative juxtapositions of museum objects to Mesa-Bains's allegorical home altars, Osorio's condensed spaces (bedrooms, living rooms; barbershops, prison cells) and Green's genealogies of cultural contact, the theoretical and critical endeavors of these artists demonstrate how race discourse is grounded in a visual technology of display.
Subject to Display
Author: Jennifer A. Gonzalez
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262516020
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
An exploration of the visual culture of “race” through the work of five contemporary artists who came to prominence during the 1990s. Over the past two decades, artists James Luna, Fred Wilson, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Pepón Osorio, and Renée Green have had a profound impact on the meaning and practice of installation art in the United States. In Subject to Display, Jennifer González offers the first sustained analysis of their contribution, linking the history and legacy of race discourse to innovations in contemporary art. Race, writes González, is a social discourse that has a visual history. The collection and display of bodies, images, and artifacts in museums and elsewhere is a primary means by which a nation tells the story of its past and locates the cultures of its citizens in the present. All five of the American installation artists González considers have explored the practice of putting human subjects and their cultures on display by staging elaborate dioramas or site-specific interventions in galleries and museums; in doing so, they have created powerful social commentary of the politics of space and the power of display in settings that mimic the very spaces they critique. These artists' installations have not only contributed to the transformation of contemporary art and museum culture, but also linked Latino, African American, and Native American subjects to the broader spectrum of historical colonialism, race dominance, and visual culture. From Luna's museum installation of his own body and belongings as “artifacts” and Wilson's provocative juxtapositions of museum objects to Mesa-Bains's allegorical home altars, Osorio's condensed spaces (bedrooms, living rooms; barbershops, prison cells) and Green's genealogies of cultural contact, the theoretical and critical endeavors of these artists demonstrate how race discourse is grounded in a visual technology of display.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262516020
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
An exploration of the visual culture of “race” through the work of five contemporary artists who came to prominence during the 1990s. Over the past two decades, artists James Luna, Fred Wilson, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Pepón Osorio, and Renée Green have had a profound impact on the meaning and practice of installation art in the United States. In Subject to Display, Jennifer González offers the first sustained analysis of their contribution, linking the history and legacy of race discourse to innovations in contemporary art. Race, writes González, is a social discourse that has a visual history. The collection and display of bodies, images, and artifacts in museums and elsewhere is a primary means by which a nation tells the story of its past and locates the cultures of its citizens in the present. All five of the American installation artists González considers have explored the practice of putting human subjects and their cultures on display by staging elaborate dioramas or site-specific interventions in galleries and museums; in doing so, they have created powerful social commentary of the politics of space and the power of display in settings that mimic the very spaces they critique. These artists' installations have not only contributed to the transformation of contemporary art and museum culture, but also linked Latino, African American, and Native American subjects to the broader spectrum of historical colonialism, race dominance, and visual culture. From Luna's museum installation of his own body and belongings as “artifacts” and Wilson's provocative juxtapositions of museum objects to Mesa-Bains's allegorical home altars, Osorio's condensed spaces (bedrooms, living rooms; barbershops, prison cells) and Green's genealogies of cultural contact, the theoretical and critical endeavors of these artists demonstrate how race discourse is grounded in a visual technology of display.
Installation Art
Author: Claire Bishop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Installation Art provides both a history and a full critical examination of this challenging area of contemporary art, from 1960 to the present day. Using case studies of significant artists and individual works, Claire Bishop argues that, as installation art requires its audience to physically enter the artwork in order to experience it, installation pieces can be categorised by the type of experience they provide for the viewing subject. As well as exploring the methodologies of the artists examined, Bishop also explains the critical theory that informed their work. While revising and, in some cases, re-assessing many well-known names, this fully illustrated book will introduce the reader to a wide spectrum of younger artists, some yet to receive critical attention. Book jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Installation Art provides both a history and a full critical examination of this challenging area of contemporary art, from 1960 to the present day. Using case studies of significant artists and individual works, Claire Bishop argues that, as installation art requires its audience to physically enter the artwork in order to experience it, installation pieces can be categorised by the type of experience they provide for the viewing subject. As well as exploring the methodologies of the artists examined, Bishop also explains the critical theory that informed their work. While revising and, in some cases, re-assessing many well-known names, this fully illustrated book will introduce the reader to a wide spectrum of younger artists, some yet to receive critical attention. Book jacket.
Contemporary Installation Art
Author: Aihong Li (Editor)
Publisher: Antique Collector's Club
ISBN: 9789881354143
Category : Commercial art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Art installations are many things to many people, inspiring notions of architecture, sculpture, or even physical poetry. They represent pure emotion, a brand or artist's ethos, or lofty ideals through physical manipulations of color, sound, environment and materials.The pieces in Contemporary Installation Art range from personal artist statements and explorations of raw materials to the most elegant forms of corporate branding and public use projects; delicate and ephemeral, or overwhelming in scale and bold in their choice of colors and design. However, despite the broad range of projects, materials, styles and world-wide locations, they all share the ability to represent unlimited possibilities and provide access to magical moments created by structural art.
Publisher: Antique Collector's Club
ISBN: 9789881354143
Category : Commercial art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Art installations are many things to many people, inspiring notions of architecture, sculpture, or even physical poetry. They represent pure emotion, a brand or artist's ethos, or lofty ideals through physical manipulations of color, sound, environment and materials.The pieces in Contemporary Installation Art range from personal artist statements and explorations of raw materials to the most elegant forms of corporate branding and public use projects; delicate and ephemeral, or overwhelming in scale and bold in their choice of colors and design. However, despite the broad range of projects, materials, styles and world-wide locations, they all share the ability to represent unlimited possibilities and provide access to magical moments created by structural art.
Ephemeral Monuments
Author: Marina Pugliese
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606061348
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This is an indispensible volume for creators, curators, and conservators of installation art. Installation art is an evolving, often ephemeral medium that defies rigid categorization. It has also radically transformed the concepts of space, time, and the experience of art. The conservation field is faced with unique challenges over how best to manage and preserve the essence of these works. How detailed can documentation get? When does the replacement of original components become acceptable? How does the field cope with the obsolescence of certain technologies? By exploring the questions and dilemmas facing those who care for art installations, this book intends to raise awareness and promote discussion about the various conservation approaches for these works.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606061348
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This is an indispensible volume for creators, curators, and conservators of installation art. Installation art is an evolving, often ephemeral medium that defies rigid categorization. It has also radically transformed the concepts of space, time, and the experience of art. The conservation field is faced with unique challenges over how best to manage and preserve the essence of these works. How detailed can documentation get? When does the replacement of original components become acceptable? How does the field cope with the obsolescence of certain technologies? By exploring the questions and dilemmas facing those who care for art installations, this book intends to raise awareness and promote discussion about the various conservation approaches for these works.
Installation Art
Author: Shaoqiang Wang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Despite the fact that the computer can work out any design and preview effect, artists and designers prefer to go back to basis, bringing concepts to life gy utilizing different materials to create installation. Works are usually intended to be impermanent, but some have been purchased, preserved, and displayed by commercials, promotions, and even government organizations. The chosen materials fill the space with innocence, playfulness and a firm conceptual base. When the viewer is moving araound, they interact with the work and become part of that work in that specific moment. Installation began to describe a kind of
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Despite the fact that the computer can work out any design and preview effect, artists and designers prefer to go back to basis, bringing concepts to life gy utilizing different materials to create installation. Works are usually intended to be impermanent, but some have been purchased, preserved, and displayed by commercials, promotions, and even government organizations. The chosen materials fill the space with innocence, playfulness and a firm conceptual base. When the viewer is moving araound, they interact with the work and become part of that work in that specific moment. Installation began to describe a kind of
Framed Spaces
Author: Monica E. McTighe
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682517
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
While earlier theorists held up "experience" as the defining character of installation art, few people have had the opportunity to walk through celebrated installation pieces from the past. Instead, installation art of the past is known through archival photographs that limit, define, and frame the experience of the viewer. Monica E. McTighe argues that the rise of photographic-based theories of perception and experience, coupled with the inherent closeness of installation art to the field of photography, had a profound impact on the very nature of installation art, leading to a flood of photography- and film-based installations. With its close readings of specific works, Framed Spaces will appeal to art historians and theorists across a broad spectrum of the visual arts.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611682517
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
While earlier theorists held up "experience" as the defining character of installation art, few people have had the opportunity to walk through celebrated installation pieces from the past. Instead, installation art of the past is known through archival photographs that limit, define, and frame the experience of the viewer. Monica E. McTighe argues that the rise of photographic-based theories of perception and experience, coupled with the inherent closeness of installation art to the field of photography, had a profound impact on the very nature of installation art, leading to a flood of photography- and film-based installations. With its close readings of specific works, Framed Spaces will appeal to art historians and theorists across a broad spectrum of the visual arts.
From Margin to Center
Author: Julie H. Reiss
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262681346
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of installation art. JulieReiss concentrates on some of the central figures in its emergence,including artists, critics, and curators.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262681346
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of installation art. JulieReiss concentrates on some of the central figures in its emergence,including artists, critics, and curators.
Installation Art and the Museum
Author: Vivian van Saaze
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789089644596
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks means that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials, and other issues concerning care and management of these artworks. By analyzing three in-depth case studies, the author sheds new light on the key concepts of traditional conservation--authenticity, artist's intention, and the notion of ownership--while exploring how these concepts apply in contemporary art conservation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789089644596
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks means that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials, and other issues concerning care and management of these artworks. By analyzing three in-depth case studies, the author sheds new light on the key concepts of traditional conservation--authenticity, artist's intention, and the notion of ownership--while exploring how these concepts apply in contemporary art conservation.
Understanding Installation Art
Author: Mark Lawrence Rosenthal
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
When we think of installation art we imagine enormous, perhaps bewildering, multi-media environments. In this book, Mark Rosenthal offers an historical interpretation and concise critical analyses that should help deepen readers' appreciation of this often-confusing medium.
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
When we think of installation art we imagine enormous, perhaps bewildering, multi-media environments. In this book, Mark Rosenthal offers an historical interpretation and concise critical analyses that should help deepen readers' appreciation of this often-confusing medium.
Installation Art in the New Millennium
Author: Nicolas De Oliveira
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500284513
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Offers an overview of the transformative nature of installation art over the past decade, including coverage of the work of Doug Aitken, Kazuo Katase, Hans Haacke, Christian Boltanksi, Damien Hirst, Vanessa Beecroft, Gary Hill, Mariko Mori, and Bill Viola
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500284513
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Offers an overview of the transformative nature of installation art over the past decade, including coverage of the work of Doug Aitken, Kazuo Katase, Hans Haacke, Christian Boltanksi, Damien Hirst, Vanessa Beecroft, Gary Hill, Mariko Mori, and Bill Viola