| Description |
327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction. What is installation? / Adam Geczy and Benjamin Genocchio -- Part One. Theories and Beginnings: Introduction; Installing art / Edward Colless; Reflections on my Installation Art of the 1970s / Mike Parr; Installation art: essence and existence / Nicholas Zurbrugg; In the wild: nature, culture, gender in installation art / Julie Ewington; Installation's crisis of presentation / Jeffrey Fereday; Thrift store alchemy: notes on installation / George Alexander; The end of the line: installation art today / Keith Broadfoot; Installation as conceptual scheme (out of the gallery) / Tim Johnson with Vivien Johnson; The expanded field / Ewen McDonald -- Part Two. Institutions: Introduction/ Chihuahuas and currawongs: humour and the Australian landscape in the recent work of Ken Unsworth / Felicity Fenner; Requiem Chorus: Peter Kennedy's millenium opus / Anne Marsh; Specific objects (the second time around): two installations by Peter Cripps / Carolyn Barnes; Domenico de Clario's dark wood / Charles Green; Technology of perception, the installations of Joan Brassil / Martin Thomas; Aleks Danko and the subject of self-portraiture / Jackie Dunn; Little theatres of excess: spatial theory and site-specific sculpture / Linda Williams; Rodney Spooner: back home / Adam Geczy; Heritage and hauntology: the installation art of Michael Goldberg / David McNeill |
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Part Three. Environments: Introduction; Context and the site-specific / John Barrett-Lennard; Simone Mangos: Temenos / Terence Maloon; Elemental constructions: women artists and sculpture in the expanded field / Susan Best; Forest of dreams, forest of hope: the Aboriginal Memorial, 200 Poles / Djon Mundine; Postcards from the edge: Edge of Trees / Benjamin Genocchio; Hossein Valamanesh / Timothy Morrell; Bill Seeto / Sue Cramer -- Part Four. Objects: Introduction; Installing the format of the future / Terry Smith; Kevin Mortensen: icons and images / Graeme Sturgeon; Rosslynd Piggott / Chris McAuliffe; Disembodied aesthetic: Suzann Victor's corporeal installations / Melissa Chiu; The machine in the garden: Simeon Nelson's Land-scope / Ross Harley; Geoff Kleem: useless things / Frazer Ward; Material matters: the art of Janet Laurence / Paul McGillick -- Part Five. Interfaces: Introduction; The new abstraction / McKenzie Wark; Nigel Helyer's Silent Forest / Douglas Kahn; Systemic murmurs / Catharine Lumby; Patricia Piccinini: installations / Peter Hennessey; Dennis Del Favero and the traumatophilia of video installation / Jill Bennett; the video installations of David Noonan / Jacqueline Millner.ite-specif |
| Summary |
This book consists of a combination of new and previously published essays on the emergence and nature of installation art from the 1970s to the present. Themes include open air sculpture, site-specificity, institutional critiques and new media |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Art, Australian.
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Installations (Art)
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Site-specific art -- Australia.
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Artists -- Australia.
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Artists, Aboriginal Australian.
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Art, Australian -- 20th century.
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Installations (Art) -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326
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| Author |
Geczy, Adam.
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Genocchio, Benjamin.
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| LC no. |
2002318236 |
| ISBN |
1864874309 paperback |
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