How to Understand Installation Art: with a Focus on Theatricality

Abstract

Abstract: This paper seeks to analyze the positive contribution that Arthur Danto, Greenberg, Michael Fried have made for installation art theory, while clarifying their respective misunderstanding and vision deviation. The paper will take the example of contemporary artists like Yayoi Kusama and Xu Bing and analyze the theatricality effect produced by the medium material, color, shading, texture, shape, pattern and three-dimensional space in the installation art, and the paper then tries to formulate how the sense of objects produced through installation art may function to overcome the crisis of modernity.

Key words: installation art, the sense of objects, theatricality, modernity

Zhang Zhengbo. How to Understand Installation Art: with a Focus on Theatricality[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(5): 35-40.

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