4.672
Installation Art
(meets with 4.673)
Instructor: Caroline Jones
Telephone: 617-253-5932
Office:
3-303
Send e-mail: cajones@mit.edu
Level: U/G
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
Subject focuses on a genre that has dominated contemporary art for the last decade. "Installation art" produces environments rather than portable "art objects;" we will study this genre from a historical perspective, as a rejection of the modernist aesthetic of purity and a willful complication of the neutral white gallery space. This site-specific art is also seen to develop previous exhibition models such as natural history displays or merchandising conventions, and to attempt synaesthetic or alternative sensory models in an age of body fragmentation. Subject meets with 4.672, but graduate students are expected to complete additional work.
