Escape -- Author and institution -- Exchange and interaction -- Time and narrative -- Th ebody of the audience.
"Over the past decade Installation art has achieved mainstream status within contemporary visual culture. Its ascendancy has given rise to new critical terms and has stimulated wide-ranging developments not only in art but also club culture, fashion, film and retail design. This volume surveys the innovative ways in which Installation has evolved, embracing different and often unexpected media, and its far-reaching influence worldwide. Installation has opened art to experimental strategies beyond the traditionally visual, as impressively illustrated here in over 300 reproductions of work by artists as diverse as Doug Aitken, Vanessa Beecroft, Santiago Sierry and Mariko Mori. Its constant development, its refusal to accept fixed boundaries and its creation of new dynamics between the artist, spectator and the museum have given rise to astonishing and challenging results"--Back cover