Installation is a quintessentially modern art form. A hybrid of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to performance and architecture, installation attempts to blur the boundary between art and life. This picture-rich international survey covers the history of installation art and provides a host of diverse examples. Such progenitors as Marcel Duchamp and his readymades, Kurt Schwitters and his room-filling constructions, Yves Klein and his performances, and Robert Smithson and his earthworks are identified and discussed in the introductory commentary. The main body of the volume approaches installation in terms of settings. Site-specific works are presented first, then media-related installations, museum pieces, and interior and exterior installations linked to architecture. The artists include Christo, Bill Viola, Jonathan Borofsky, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelly, and many European artists whose names will be new to readers. No art form can rival installation for sheer variety of material, style, setting, and intent, a profusion well celebrated within these pages. Donna Seaman