Contents
INTRODUCTION 6
1.THEATRICALITY 20
1.1 Theater and Drama (Stanley Cavell) 25
1.2 Theatricality and the Autonomy of Art (Michael Fried) 39
1.2.1 Literalness and Meaning 49
1.2.2 "Theatricalization" and Aesthetic Reflection 62
2. INTERMEDIALITY 74
2.1 Medium and Form (Clement Greenberg, Niklas Luhmann) 79
2.2 Art and the Arts (Theodor W. Adorno) 99
2.2.1. Progress and "Aesthetic Spirit" 103
2.2.2. Progress and "Fraying" 115
2.2.3. Progress and Autonomy 127
2.3. Spatial and Time-Based Art (G. E. Lessing, Jacques Derrida) 141
2.3.1. The Temporal Space of Landscape Theater (Gertrude Stein) 146
2.3.2. The Spatial Time of Theatrical Installation (Ilya Kabakov) 155
2.3.3. Cinematographic Installation (Boris Groys, Walter Benjamin) 171
2.3.4. Sound Installation (Theodor W. Adorno, Stanley Cavell) 197
3. SITE SPECIFICITY 220
3.1. Art and Space (Martin Heidegger) 225
3.1.1. Places and Spaces 227
3.1.2. Setting Up, Setting Forth: The Ge-Stell 230
3.1.3. The Interplay of Art and Space 240
3.2. Installation and Intervention 251
3.2.1. Institutional Critique 252
3.2.2. Art and Politics 263
3.2.3. Aesthetic Subjectivity 267
BIBLIOGRAPHY 276