What is installation? : an anthology of writings on Australian installation art / edited by Adam Geczy and Benjamin Genocchio.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Sydney, NSW, Australia : Power Publications, ©2001.
Description
327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    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.
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9781864874303 ((pbk.))
    • 1864874309
    LCCN
    2002318236
    OCLC
    49611204
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