Installation Art Art that is or has been installed

THE VISUAL WORLD
Installation Art Art that is or has been installed — arranged in a place —
either by the artist or as specified by the artist. It might be either sitespecific or not, and either indoors or out. The term became widely used in
the 1970s and 1980s, and continues to be employed by many people.
Installations may be temporary or permanent, but most will be known to
posterity through documentation. As a consequence, one aspect of
installations is often the difficulty with which they can be commodified.
Title: The Gates, New York City, Central Park (aerial view)
Artist: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Date: 1979-2005
Source/Museum: Photo: Wolfgang Volz. © 2005 Christo and
Jeanne-Claude.
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
Title: The Gates, New York City, Central Park
Artist: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Date: 1979-2005
Source/Museum: Photo: Wolfgang Volz. © 2005 Christo and
Jeanne-Claude.
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Title: The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City
Source/Museum: Collection Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Artist: Christo
Medium: Drawing in two parts, pencil, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon,
Date: 2003
technical data, fabric sample, aerial photograph, and tape on paper
Size: 15x96 in. and 42x96 in.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Umbrellas
Christo and Jeanne-Claude “The Reichstag"
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Surrounded Islands
Title: Torii gates, Fushimi Inari Shrine
Source/Museum: Kyoto, Japan. Photo: Dan Hagerman.
Artist: n/a
Medium: n/a
Date: 8th century
Size: n/a
The World As Artists See It:
The Landscape
Aesthetic - Experience of intrinsic features of things or events traditionally
recognized as worthy of attention and reflection, such as literal, visual, and
expressive qualities, which are studied during the art criticism process. Also
spelled esthetic.
Title: The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Artist: Albert Bierstadt
Date: 1863
Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers
Fund, 1907 (07.123). Photo © 1979 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 73 ½ x 120 ¾ in.
One of the traditional roles of the artist is to record the world
Title: The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Artist: Albert Bierstadt
Date: 1863
Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers
Fund, 1907 (07.123). Photo © 1979 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 73 ½ x 120 ¾ in.
A second traditional role is to give visible or tangible form to ideas,
philosophies, or feelings
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Title: The Central Mountain
Artist: Wu Chen
Date: 1336
Source/Museum: Collection of the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Medium: Handscroll, ink on paper
Size: 10 1//6 x 35 1/3 in.
To reveal hidden or
universal truths
Title: Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming
Artist: Erna Motna
Date: 1988
Source/Museum: Australia Gallery, New York. Courtesy of the
Australian Consulate General.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 48 x 32 in.
To help us see the world in a new way
Title: Spiral Jetty
Artist: Robert Smithson
Date: April, 1970
Source/Museum: Great Salt Lake, Utah. Photo: by Gianfranco Gorgoni. ©
Estate of Robert Smithson/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Medium: Mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks and water, coil
Size: 1,500 x 1.500 ft.
Title: Spiral Jetty (Movie Treatment)
Artist: Robert Smithson
Date: 1970
Source/Museum: Collection of Virginia Dwan. © Estate of
Robert Smithson/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: (20 panels) 19 x 24 in.
Title: Spiral Jetty
Source/Museum: Photo: Sandy Brooke
Artist: Robert Smithson
Medium: n/a
Date: As it appeared in August, 2003
Size: n/a
Youtube video
The World As Artists See It:
The Flag
Title: Allies Day, May 1917
Artist: Childe Hassam
Date: 1917
Source/Museum: Gift of Ethelyn McKinney in memory of her brother, Glenn
Ford McKinney. © Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 36 ½ x 30 ¼ in.
Title: Three Flags
Artist: Jasper Johns
Date: 1958
Source/Museum: Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 50th
Anniversary Gift of the Gilman Foundation, Inc., The Lauder Foundation, A. Alfred Taubman,
an anonymous donor, and purchase 80.32. Photo: Geoffrey Clements. © Jasper Johns/
Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Medium: Encaustic on canvas
Size: 30 ⅞. X 45 ½ x 5 in.
Title: Mistress and Maid
Artist: Jan Vermeer
Date: 1665-1670
Title: God Bless America
Source/Museum: © Faith Ringgold, Inc.
Artist: Faith Ringgold
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1964
Size: 31 x 19 in.
Title: The World Flag Ant Farm
Artist: Yukinori Yanagi
Date: 1990
Source/Museum: Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa,
Japan. Photo: Norihiro Ueno.
Medium: Ants, colored sand, plastic boxes, and plastic tubes, 170 boxes
Size: Each 8 x 12 in.
Title: The World Flag Ant Farm
Artist: Yukinori Yanagi
Date: 1990
Source/Museum: Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa,
Japan. Photo: Norihiro Ueno.
Medium: Ants, colored sand, plastic boxes, and plastic tubes, 170 boxes
Size: Each 8 x 12 in.
Title: The World Flag Ant Farm
Artist: Yukinori Yanagi
Date: 1990
Source/Museum: Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa,
Japan. Photo: Norihiro Ueno.
Medium: Ants, colored sand, plastic boxes, and plastic tubes, 170 boxes
Size: Each 8 x 12 in.
Title: Race Riot
Artist: Andy Warhol
Date: 1963
Source/Museum: © 2003 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, four panels
Size: Each panel 20 x 33 in.
“dread” scott tyler
There are many questions you have raised. For that I thank you. It does hurt me to
see the flag on the ground being stepped on. Yet now after days have passed, I have
realized tat this is the ultimate form of patriotism. Our country is so strong in believing
what it stands for that we would allow you to do this. You have made me really think
about my own patriotism, which has grown stronger.
I am a German girl. If we Germans would admire our flag as you all do, we
would be called Nazis again...I think you do have too much trouble about this
flag.
In Russia you would be shot and your family would have to pay for the bullets. But
once again what do you expect from a nigger named "Dread Scott"?
Dear Dread, Like someone who viewed the exhibit, I began reading other
people's comments standing next to the flag, but gradually moved to standing
on it. As someone raised to be iconoclastic (at least I thought I was) it was an
interesting moment of self-awareness, which (I think) is the whole purpose of
the display. Perhaps when human life and liberty is really valued above
property (and symbols) in America we will all have more allegiance to the
principles of "liberty" and "justice" for all. Congratulations on your courage in
getting arrested to test this crazy law.
P.S. Kudos to the gallery for their courage. Why is it OK to "Knowingly maintain
on the ground homeless people but not the flag"???
Right now a lady is on the ground crying because of what you have done. I feel
you did something wrong and I feel you should be put in jail or have something
done to you for this. I love my country and it hurts me to know that don't. I hope
you feel good about yourself for what you are putting people through. You're an
asshole.
This flag I'm standing on stands for everything oppressive in this system--The murder
of the Indians and all the oppresses around the world, including my brother, who was
shot by a pig who kicked over his body to "make sure the nigger was dead." the pig
was wearing the flag. Thank you Dread Scott for this opportunity.
As a veteran defending the flag I personally would never defend your stupid ass!
You should be shot!
--U.S. Navy Seal Team
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