INSTALLATION ART

AND EARTH ART

INSTALLATION ART

• The term installation art is used to describe

large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often
designed for a specific place or for a
temporary period of time
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• Installation art emerged out of environments which artists such as Allan Kaprow, made
from about 1957 onward, though there were important precursors, such as Kurt
Schwitters’s Merzbau 1933, an environment of several rooms created in the artist’s own
house in Hanover
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• The ethos of Earth art, for example, shared certain characteristics with Minimalism,
including its concerns with how objects occupied their space; the interaction of humans
with works of art; and, especially, simplicity of form. However, although the adoption of
the pared down Minimalist aesthetic was often central to Earth art, the artists were
typically hands-on with the documentation and process of production, at times even
including a performative element
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