一装置艺术肇始于西方。在中国,自改革开放以后,从上世纪70年代末80年代初开始,一些对西方现代和后现代艺术反应比较敏感的前卫艺术家也开始尝试用装置艺术形式进行创作。二十多年创作的历程见证了装置艺术在中国的快速发展,造就了如徐冰等具有国际知名度的艺术新宠。事实上,装置已从20世纪初由少数前卫艺术家摆弄的另类艺术,历经近一个世纪的发展,变成 A installation art originated in the West. In China, since the reform and opening up, from the late 1970s and early 1980s, some avant-garde artists who were more sensitive to the modern and postmodern western art have begun to experiment with installations. More than 20 years of creation process witnessed the installation of the rapid development of art in China, created such as Xu Bing has the international reputation of the new favorite art. In fact, the installation of alternative art, which has been tweaked by a few avant-garde artists since the early 20th century, has evolved over the last century into