Author: Hugh Marlais Davies; Ronald J Onorato
Title: Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art, 1969-1996. (Second Printing)
Description: San Diego, Calif. : Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999. 4to. 198 pp. Very Good. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps with French folds. Color plates throughout. Examines the subject of installation art though the permanent collection and exhibition record of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. ISBN: 0934418446 9780934418447. Named persons: Dan Flavin; Ann Hamilton; Tony Oursler; James Turrell; Damien Hirst; Anish Kapoor; Richard Long; David Mach; Vito Acconci. Far from being the latest movement or a new development in contemporary art, installation art, one could argue, is only the most recent manifestation of the oldest tradition in art, going as far back as the prehistoric paintings on cave walls at Lascaux. Fundamental to this work are its habitation and incorporation of a physical site, a connection to real conditions - be they visual, historical, or social - and often, a bridging of traditional art boundaries. The aesthetic power of installation art does not reside in the singular, commodified object but rather in the artwork's ability to become, not merely represent, the continuum of real experience." "Blurring the Boundaries examines the subject of installation art through the permanent collection and exhibition record of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, an institution with a unique heritage in support of such art dating back to the 1960s. .

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