當代歐美裝置藝術特質之分析與研究

Abstract

Installation art is one of art genres and phenomena actively practiced by contemporary artists in the Postmodern era. Its early prototypes derive from a creative synthesis of the arts since the Renaissance, to the experimental art of avant-garde artists in the first half of the 20th century. The art concepts and peripheries involved in contemporary installations are highly complex, and in association with the ideologies of art forms or movements developed by artists, theorists, and critics after the World War II. The major goal of the study is to identify the salient characteristics of contemporary Installation art. Four key concepts discussed in the essay are: site-specificity, viewer participation as theatricality, syntheses of media and disciplines, and socio-political critique. Each key concept has subconcepts.