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Installation Art
The dictionary definition of the everyday meaning of installation
refers to the hanging of pictures or arrangements of objects in a house, an
exhibition or department store. It continues, "the setting up or
placing in position for service or use". Early churches and temples are the
earliest examples of known installation art, used to establish up a
cosmological environment for an ideological function... to enhance the
viewer's religious experience with paintings, statutes, glass windows,
sacred objects and images. Based on this premise, artists have expanded the
concept to create their own new forms of art installations.
An installation artwork in the western point of view is usually created
for a gallery or outdoor location. Instead of the site simply being a
natural backdrop for the exhibition of individual art objects, as in a
traditional hanging, the ensemble of elements that make up the
installation are arranged to interact with the chosen site. Their purpose is
to provide the beholder with the sensation of physically entering an art
space and experience. Installation art is often temporary and
designed to enhance or enliven the chosen space. Sometimes installations
significantly alter the space they occupy; other times they may elicit a
greater awareness of existing visual qualities, culture history or
conceptual function of a given space and place.
1. Duro, Paul & Greenbalgh, Michael " Essential Art History" 1992 PP
163-164.
2. Atkins, Robert, "Art Speak" Abbeville Press 1997 PP.105-106
3. "Webster Dictionary" Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. PP.606
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