From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art

Description:

This book is the first history of the development of installation art in America, and traces the progress of installation art from alternative to mainstream.The book foregrounds the importance of alternative exhibition spaces in New York in the late 1960's and 1970's and highlights the significance of these spaces as centers for political and aesthetic exchange, exploration and experimentation. The book provides an arguement for seeing installation art as a medium defined by spectator participation.

subjects: environment,  installation,  participation,  spectator

People: Allan Kaprow,  Ilya Kabakov,  Gordon Matta-Clark

Places: New York

Times: 1958-1993