Wonderland (Paperback)

This accompanying catalogue to the current exhibition of installation art at the St. Louis Museum of Art is just as impressive in form as it is in content: Wonderland comes with a special insert containing photographs of the on-site installations, reproduced in full-color posters. This innovative design is a perfect complement to the sense of active creation, of imagination, and of joy that characterizes the works of art here. The ten artists represented -- Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernandez, Stephen Hendee, Bill Klaila, Joep van Lieshout, Ernesto Neto, Pipilotti Rist, Gregor Schneider, and Jennifer Steinkamp -- make art whose constructed or alternate realities inspire and engage our physical involvement with them, creating an experience for the body as well as the intellect. In addition to the works themselves, Wonderland features interviews with the artists and critical essays, by authors including Terence Riley, Chief Curator of Architecure and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Beatriz Colomina Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, and Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.