"From Margin to Center is a much-needed first history of the development of installation art in America. Reiss's research foregrounds the importance of alternative exhibition spaces in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s and highlights the significance of these spaces as centers for political and aesthetic exchange, exploration, and experimentation. The book's important documentation of artworks and performances from this period reignites and informs consideration of the frame and context for artistic practice in today's global cultural community." -- Jennifer R. Gross, Curator of Contemporary Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston "Reiss's narration of the progress of installation from alternative to mainstream is clear, well-researched, and cogently argued. This book fills a void in the field of contemporary art." -- Tom Finkelpearl, Program Director, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center "Reiss offers a lucid argument for rethinking 'installation art' and its challenge to the repressive and restrictive terms of the modernist art object. Her revisionism is a refreshing departure from the essentially formalist canon that continues to distort the meaning and implications of the radical aesthetics of the 1960s." -- Maurice Berger, Senior Fellow, The Vera List Center for Art & Politics, New School for Social Research
Julie H. Reiss is a New York City-based independent scholar and art historian.
"Dr. Reiss's text is a fluently written and well-researched study of Installation Art in New York from the 1950s onward." - John A. Walker, Art Newspaper
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