Aesthetics of Installation Art will rejuvenate and irrevocably change debates about the nature of aesthetic experience, the autonomy of art, modernism and postmodernism, and, through all of these, about installation art—certainly, in Juliane Rebentisch's expanded definition of the genre, the most important form of art since the 1960s.

Juliane Rebentisch's study of the philosophical underpinnings of installation art brilliantly reevaluates the concept of aesthetic autonomy as the very condition of the possibility of “art” itself. With captivating readings of Martin Heidegger, Theodor W. Adorno, Clement Greenberg, Rosalind E. Krauss, Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell, and others, Aesthetics of Installation Art pushes debates about “site specificity” and “Institutional Critique” to argue that aesthetic autonomy and the public sphere in installation art are, in fact, inseparable.